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).

• 1. Retrospect and prospect: from a new dark age to a new dawn of planning enlightenmentPhilip Cooke2. 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 societyBob 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 Hassink6. Regional innovation policies for new path development – beyond neo-liberal and traditional systemic viewsFranz 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 EmbeddednessSergio 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 Sternberg14. The ‘Dark Triad’ story of widespread entrepreneurial decline and a future recovery discoursePhilip Cooke15. Wishful thinking? Towards a more realistic role for universities in regional innovation policyLouise Kempton16. Place leadership and the challenge of transformation: policy platforms and innovation ecosystems in promotion of green growthMarkku Sotarauta and Nina Suvinen

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).

• 1. Retrospect and prospect: from a new dark age to a new dawn of planning enlightenmentPhilip Cooke2. 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 societyBob 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 Hassink6. Regional innovation policies for new path development – beyond neo-liberal and traditional systemic viewsFranz 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 EmbeddednessSergio 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 Sternberg14. The ‘Dark Triad’ story of widespread entrepreneurial decline and a future recovery discoursePhilip Cooke15. Wishful thinking? Towards a more realistic role for universities in regional innovation policyLouise Kempton16. Place leadership and the challenge of transformation: policy platforms and innovation ecosystems in promotion of green growthMarkku Sotarauta and Nina Suvinen