Roel Rutten is assistant professor at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Tilburg University and has worked as a consultant of regional innovation policy. His research interests include innovation and organization and the geography of innovation and learning. He is a founding member...

Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis – utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures...

The problem of regional economic development is closely related to the ability of organizations in that region to innovate. Research has shown that this ability differs between regions and is even influenced by the characteristics of a region. The milieu of innovation thesis suggests that...

R<sc>utten</sc> R. and B<sc>oekema</sc> F. From learning region to learning in a socio-spatial context, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Conceptually ambiguous and too intimately connected to regional innovation policy, the ‘learning region’ failed to develop into a mature concept. This paper and the special issue it...

The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of ‘the learning region’. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region presents...

The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of ‘the learning region’. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region...

The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of ‘the learning region’. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region...

The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of ‘the learning region’. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region...