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Introduction (OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: Central and Southern Denmark 2012)
In the context of crisis recovery, countries and regions seek to boost growth with increasingly limited public spending. They are also seeking to promote sustainable development, taking into consideration new approaches to economic challenges. Many countries and regions strive to promote not only economic efficiency, but also social issues so as to not exacerbate inequalities, as well as environmental factors to ensure resources for the future. Conditions for a better life vary within the same country. Regions are therefore the "places" where policies come together. Place-based approaches, such as those promoted by regional development policy and regions themselves, can bring out the complementarities that mutually reinforce these three goals. Place-based approaches are a complement to, not a substitute for, economy-wide and people-centred policies.

Country Reports

- Entrepreneurially Into the World of Business, Slovenia (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Key features of the first phase of national cluster program (Russia), 2014
- Sustainable building in Austria (Austria), 2014
- Governance for System Innovation Sustainable Housing and Building in Flanders (Belgium), 2015
- System innovation for sustainable materials use in Flanders (Belgium), 2014
Thematic Reports

- Governance and implementation of innovation policies (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Applying the framework for innovation (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- The role of innovation and the rationale for public policy (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Executive Summary (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Key Issues for Innovation and Development (Innovation and the Development Agenda), 2010
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2012
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- Changing perspectives on innovation
- Firms' capabilities and assets for innovation
- Knowledge-based capital and intangible assets
- Relative contributions of universities and PRIs
- Policy instruments for innovation in regions
- Regions and innovation policy
- The OECD Innovation Strategy 2015
- Contributions to growth and jobs
- Contributions to socio-economic objectives
- Directionality failures
- How can innovation contribute to socio-economic development?
- Policy objectives
- Societal interest in science and technology
- What is the role of regions in innovation policy?
- Processes and contributions of universities and PRIs
- Promoting research management best practices in universities and PRIs
- Regional Innovation
- System failures