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The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This sector is frequently presented as a major opportunity for policy-makers to upgrade and renew regional economies, leading to social and economic development through support for high-tech innovation. Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences analyses where innovation happens in the life sciences, why it happens in those places, and what this means for regional development policies and strategies. Focusing on the UK and Europe, its arguments are relevant to a variety of countries and regions pursuing high-tech innovation and development policies. The book's theoretical approach incorporates diverse geographies (e.g. global, national and regional) and political-economic forces (e.g. discourses, governance and finance) in order to understand where innovation happens in the life sciences, where and how value circulates in the life sciences, and who captures the value produced in life sciences innovation. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and policy-makers dealing with regional/local economic development.

Offers a look at the impact of bottom-up neighbourhood based initiatives. This book analyses and documents a variety of local urban strategies in European cities and their impact on wider urban socio-economic and political restructuring processes.

Major changes have taken place in the attitude of governments towards small firms. Public encouragement of the small firm is not, however, without its pitfalls and in this collection of essays (first published in 1985) the contribution of small businesses to economic development is assessed in a number of different localities. The authors show that public policies designed to influence a wide variety of small businesses are doomed to failure. Entrepreneurial independence, contrasting regional prosperity and the variable rate of response to central policy initiatives are amongst the factors mitigating against the success of such a policy. The small business is not to be seen as a panacea for solving the economic development problems of areas suffering from high rates of unemployment, and their overall conclusion is that assistance to small firms should be more selective than is customarily the norm

pt. 1. Beyond the campus : partnership and collaboration across higher education institutions and the creative and cultural industries -- pt. 2. Higher education and creative human capital -- pt. 3. Connecting the dots : arts schools and local art scenes -- pt. 4. Higher education policy and the creative economy.

Social innovation and community development: concepts, theories and challenges / Frank Moulaert -- Historical roots of social change : philosophies and movements / Flavia Martinelli -- ALMOLIN: how to analyse social innovation at the local level? / Sara González, Frank Moulaert and Flavia Martinelli -- Social innovation in the wake of urban movements. The Centro Sociale Leoncavallo in Milan: a case of 'flexible institutionalisation' / Andrea Membretti -- Building a shared interest. Olinda, Milan: social innovation between strategy and organisational learning / Tommaso Vitale -- How to make neighbourhoods act? The Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli in Naples / Lucia Cavola, Paola di Martino and Pasquale de Muro -- Social inclusion and exclusion in the neighbourhood of L'Epeule, Roubaix: the innovative role of the Alentour Association / Oana Ailenei and Bénédicte Lefebvre -- Arts Factory in Ferndale, South Wales : renegotiating social relations in a traditional working-class community / Sophie Donaldson and Liz Court -- The Ouseburn Trust in Newcastle: a struggle to innovate in the context of a weak local state / Sara González and Geoff Vigar -- New Deal for Communities, Newcastle: innovating neighbourhood regeneration policy in the context of a strong central government / Jon Coaffee -- Autonomy and inclusive urban governance. A case of glocal action: City Mine(d) in Brussels / Johan Moyersoen -- The end of social innovation in urban development strategies? The case of BOM in Antwerp / Frank Moulaert and Etienne Christiaens -- The limits of 'controlled modernisation': the Grätzelmanagement experience in Vienna / Andreas Novy, Elizabeth Hammer and Bernhard Leubolt -- Creatively designing urban futures: a transversal analysis of socially innovative initiatives / Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert and Sara González -- Socially innovative projects, governance dynamics and urban change: between state and self-organisation / Erik Swyngedouw and Frank Moulaert.