The great debates of most fields associated with economic development rest on emergence versus intention and the interplay between the two. The 'residual' of unexplained divergence between goal and outcome, in this sense, can be ascribed in part to the interplay, or co-evolution, between...

The great debates of most fields associated with economic development rest on emergence versus intention and the interplay between the two. The “residual” of unexplained divergence between goal and outcome, in this sense, can be ascribed in part to the interplay, or co-evolution, between...

Increased complexity and rapid pace of change demand more from people responsible for regional development at various levels of activity. This paper has its roots in a belief that the more complex situations are the more regional development is dependent on the leadership and network management...

1. Introduction -- 2. Knowledge-based development of cities -- 3. Governance and influence networks -- 4. The basic features of place leadership -- 5. Power and leadership -- 6. Generative leadership as a relay in time -- 7. Generative strategy -- 8. Did we learn something? Generative...

It has been observed that the regional innovation environment (RIE) affects the innovation activities in firms. Studies focusing on innovation systems have increased our understanding of the interaction between the main actors that participate in the innovation activities and the systemic nature...

Traditionally policy-making in urban economic development (UED) is based on a fairly well established belief in the capabilities of policy-makers to find the correct strategies for the future by rational planning. I argue, based on series of studies focusing on UED-policies, that in a knowledge...

The main aims of this paper are (a) to construct a generic conceptual model for the Triple Helix model based on competence sets and hence (b) to identify the system-level generic competencies needed in the emergence of a new industry. This paper suggests that to gain additional analytical...