Regions and Innovation Policy addresses the needs of national and regional governments for greater clarity on how to strengthen the innovation capacity of regions. The first part of the book examines strategies, policies and governance, explaining why regions matter, what makes smart policy mixes, and multilevel governance.  The second part of the book looks at agencies, instruments and country information, showing how agencis can maximize their impact and what policy instruments work. The final chapter provides country-by-country summaries of what countries are doing.

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Acronyms
Preface
Executive Summary
Résumé
PART I: STRATEGIES, POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE
Chapter 1. Why regions matter for innovation policy today
-Introduction
-A double policy paradigm shift
-An evolving innovation scenario
-Innovation and regions: Evidence from the OECD
-Annex 1.A1. Typologies of European innovative regions
Chaper  2. Road maps and smart policy mixes for regional innovation
-Introduction
-Opening the balck box of policies: identifying relevant policy spaces
-Recognising challenges and setting priorities
-Implementing smart policy mixes
-Annex 2.A1. The regional dimension in national innovation strategies
Chapter 3. Multi-level governance of and innovation policy
-Introduction
-Different regional roles in a multi-level governance context
-Promoting complementarity across levels of government
-Mobilising the right public and private stakeholders
-New data and indicators, better monitoring and evaluation practices
-Conclusions
-Annex 3.A1. Sub-national public investment as a share of general government public investment
Chapter 4. Conclusions and policy advice
-Key issues
-Policy advice
-Summing up
PART II: AGENCIES, INSTRUMENTS AND COUNTRY INFORMATION
Chapter 5. Maximising the impact of regional innovation agencies
-Introduction
-Role for RIAs in the new framework for regional innovation
-RIAs in practice
-Conclusions: RIAs as learning organisations and change agents
-Annex 5.A1. Case study summaries
Chapter 6. Policy instruments for regional innovation
-Introduction
-Science and technology parks
-Systemic initiatives: clusters, networks, competitiveness poles and competence centres
-Innovation support services for existing SMEs
-Support for innovative start-ups
-Innovation vouchers
-Mobility grants and talent attraction-retention schemes
-Research infrastructure
Chapter 7. Regional innovation, country by country
-Introduction
-Austria
-Belgium
-Canada
-Czech Republic
-Denmark
-Finland
-France
-Germany
-Hungary
-Italy
-Korea
-Mexico
-Netherlands
-Norway
-Poland
-Portugal
-Spain
-Sweden
-Switzerland
-United Kingdom
-United States