Regional Development Agencies : The Next Generation?

Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys, comparative research, and systematic use of critical case studies, this book provides a new point of reference by identifying key features of the current, and, indeed next, generation of regionally-based economic development organisations.

Nicola Bellini is Professor of Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Mike Danson is Professor of Scottish and Regional Economics at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Henrik Halkier is Professor of Regional and Tourism Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.