Universities are increasingly encouraged to take a leading role in economic development, particularly through innovation. Simultaneously, economic development policy itself is increasingly focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), creating overlapping interactions in the roles of...

Cooke P. and Clifton N. (2005) Visionary, precautionary and constrained 'varieties of devolution' in the economic governance of the devolved UK territories, Regional Studies 39 , 437-451. This paper explores economic development financing and action, an important policy arena if lesser...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently advised that "climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet" (2023, p.6). This threat underlines the importance of developing businesses innovation capabilities and implementing Circular Economy...