1. Retrospect and prospect: from a new dark age to a new dawn of planning enlightenment
Philip Cooke
2. Between the frog and the eagle: claiming a ‘Scholarship of Presence’ for the Anthropocene
Maria Kaika
3. Neoliberalization, uneven development, and Brexit: further reflections on the organic crisis of the British state and society
Bob Jessop
4. Immigration strategies of cities: local growth policies and urban planning in Germany
Manfred Kühn
5. Regional resilience: a stretched concept?
Klaas Fröhlich and Robert Hassink
6. Regional innovation policies for new path development – beyond neo-liberal and traditional systemic views
Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl
7. New perspectives on the evolution of clusters
Fiorenza Belussi
8. Generative growth with ‘thin’ globalization: Cambridge’s crossover model of innovation
Philip Cooke
9. The entrepreneurial university and the region: what role for entrepreneurship departments?
Rhiannon Pugh, Wadid Lamine, Sarah Jack and Eleanor Hamilton
10. Rethinking city transformation: Florence from art city to creative fashion city
Luciana Lazzeretti and Stefania Oliva
11. Situating architectural performance: ‘star architecture’ and its roles in repositioning the cities of Graz, Lucerne and Wolfsburg
Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Dominik Bartmanski, Johannes Dreher, Michael Koch, Martina Löw, Timothy Pape and Alain Thierstein
12. Firm Performance, Innovation Modes and Territorial Embeddedness
Sergio Leal Nunes and Raul Lopes
13. Knowledge bases in German regions: what hinders combinatorial knowledge dynamics and how regional innovation policies may help
Tatjana Bennat and Rolf Sternberg
14. The ‘Dark Triad’ story of widespread entrepreneurial decline and a future recovery discourse
Philip Cooke
15. Wishful thinking? Towards a more realistic role for universities in regional innovation policy
Louise Kempton
16. Place leadership and the challenge of transformation: policy platforms and innovation ecosystems in promotion of green growth
Markku Sotarauta and Nina Suvinen
Biography
Philip Cooke is Professor in the Mohn Center for Innovation and Regional Development at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway, and Editor of the journal European Planning Studies. He is the author of 250 academic papers and author/editor of over 30 books and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Lund (Sweden) and the University of Lappeenranta (Finland).
