Research Handbook on Regions and Transformative Innovation Policy

Edited by Slavo Radosevic, Sylvia Schwaag Serger and Luc Soete

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Abstract: This insightful Research Handbook explores how regions across the world are rethinking and employing innovation to tackle emerging contemporary challenges. Drawing on transformative innovation policy (TIP), leading scholars demonstrate how innovation can be reoriented away from its exclusive focus on technology and competitiveness, and instead adopt a broader role as a strategic tool for guiding societies towards greener, more inclusive and resilient futures—without abandoning economic competitiveness.

Keywords: Transformative Innovation Policy (Tip); Regional Innovation Systems; Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3); Sustainability Transitions; Multi-Level Governance; Inclusive Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035309924
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Why a handbook on regions and transformative innovation policy?

Slavo Radosevic, Sylvia Schwaag Serger and Luc Soete

Ch 2 Introducing the chapters: an overview

Slavo Radosevic

Ch 3 Enhancing the sustainability dimension in smart specialisation strategies: towards a framework for reflexive policy practice

Michał Miedziński, Lars Coenen and Henrik Larsen

Ch 4 Exploring the governance challenge of regional transformative innovation policies: a metagovernance perspective

Ainhoa Arrona and Edurne Magro

Ch 5 Transforming regions, change agency, and policy

Markus Grillitsch

Ch 6 From problems to opportunities: a place-based approach to transformative innovation policy

Elvira Uyarra

Ch 7 From smart specialisation to smart transformation – (how) do regions integrate transformative intentions in regional innovation priorities?

Sofia Avdeitchikova and Anders Olsson

Ch 8 Embedding sustainability transitions in Catalonia's smart specialisation strategy

Tatiana Fernández Sirera and Michał Miedziński

Ch 9 Conditions for sustainability transitions in Germany's peripheral regions: a differentiated view on regional change agency

Henning Kroll, Max Roessler, Valeria Maruseva and Daniel Schiller

Ch 10 Sustainable foodscapes: the transformation of public food systems

Kevin Morgan

Ch 11 Unravelling innovation transition traps: the imperative of collective action

Peter Wostner, Anže Burger, Iztok Palčič and Sonja Šlander Wostner

Ch 12 Contrasting pathways to regional transformative policies: bottom-up approaches of a leading and latecomer region in Czechia

Jiří Blažek, Viktor Květoň, Vojtěch Kadlec and Jan Pojsl

Ch 13 Public-private partnerships and regional transformative innovation policy in the US

Monica Novoa and Paige Clayton

Ch 14 Innovation and the states: the regional manifestations of the Endless Frontier in the US Rust Belt

Ben Armstrong and Dan Traficonte

Ch 15 Regional entrepreneurial mentoring networks as transformative innovation policy: insights from a semi-peripheral high tech hub

Darius Ornston and Isabelle Watkinson

Ch 16 The evolution of Korea's regional innovation system: the case of Daedeok Innopolis

Hye-Ran Hwang and Jae-Yong Choung

Ch 17 Integrating ‘Society 5.0’ and regional revitalisation: Japan's path to transformative innovation

Michiko Iizuka and Takayuki Hayashi

Ch 18 Latin America and transformative innovation policy

Matias Ramirez

Ch 19 The urban transformation of Medellín: confluence of innovation processes and transformation limits

Jorge Robledo Velásquez, Walter Lugo Ruiz Castañeda and María Luisa Villalba Morales

Ch 20 Strengthening inclusive innovation systems: analysis of the Western Cape's economic development activities

Sara Grobbelaar

Ch 21 Green goals, strategic actions: China's experience with transformative innovation policy

Hannah Yi Wei

Ch 22 Regional transformative innovation policy towards green development in China

Zhen Yu and Lan Xue

Ch 23 Reorienting STI policy for transformative change: lessons from and for India

Soutrik Basu

Ch 24 The less-than-one percent: how a few firms shape regional capabilities in India

Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese

Ch 25 Transformative regional innovation policy globally: state of the art and issues for future research

Slavo Radosevic

Ch 26 Epilogue

Sylvia Schwaag Serger and Luc Soete

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