Edited by Manuel González-López, Associate Professor of Applied Economics, ICEDE Research Group, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain and Bjørn T. Asheim, Professor of Economic Geography and Innovation Theory, University of Stavanger Business School, Norway

• ContentsList of contributors viiIntroduction: regional innovation systems and regionalinnovation policies 1Manuel González-López and Bjørn T. Asheim1 The role of the Regional Innovation System approach incontemporary regional policy: is it still relevant in a globalisedworld? 12Bjørn T. Asheim, Arne Isaksen and Michaela Trippl2 Advancing place-based regional innovation policies 30Robert Hassink3 Policy learning in regions: the potential of co-generativeresearch methodologies to help responsible innovation 46Ainhoa Arrona, James Karlsen and Miren Larrea4 Regional autonomy and innovation policy 66Elisabeth Baier and Andrea Zenker5 EU regional development policy, from regional convergenceto development through innovation 92Cristina Ares6 An overview of the European Union innovation policy fromthe regional perspective 113María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira7 Regional Innovation Systems and regional disparities in theEuro area: insights for regional innovation policy 139Óscar Rodil-Marzabal and Xavier Vence-Deza8 The effects of projects funded by the EU FrameworkProgrammes on regional innovation and scientific performance 162Pedro Varela-Vazquez and Manuel González-López9 Evolution and change of the Galician innovation system andpolicies 188Manuel González-López10 The evolution of regional innovation policy in a peripheralarea: the case of Apulia region 207Ivano Dileo and Francesco Losurdo11 Regional innovation system and policy in Malopolska, Poland:an institutionalised learning 225Marta Gancarczyk, Marta Najda-Janoszka andJacek Gancarczyk12 The Agder region: an innovation policy case study 252Roger Normann, Sissel Strickert and Jon P. KnudsenIndex 271

Edited by Manuel González-López, Associate Professor of Applied Economics, ICEDE Research Group, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain and Bjørn T. Asheim, Professor of Economic Geography and Innovation Theory, University of Stavanger Business School, Norway

• ContentsList of contributors viiIntroduction: regional innovation systems and regionalinnovation policies 1Manuel González-López and Bjørn T. Asheim1 The role of the Regional Innovation System approach incontemporary regional policy: is it still relevant in a globalisedworld? 12Bjørn T. Asheim, Arne Isaksen and Michaela Trippl2 Advancing place-based regional innovation policies 30Robert Hassink3 Policy learning in regions: the potential of co-generativeresearch methodologies to help responsible innovation 46Ainhoa Arrona, James Karlsen and Miren Larrea4 Regional autonomy and innovation policy 66Elisabeth Baier and Andrea Zenker5 EU regional development policy, from regional convergenceto development through innovation 92Cristina Ares6 An overview of the European Union innovation policy fromthe regional perspective 113María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira7 Regional Innovation Systems and regional disparities in theEuro area: insights for regional innovation policy 139Óscar Rodil-Marzabal and Xavier Vence-Deza8 The effects of projects funded by the EU FrameworkProgrammes on regional innovation and scientific performance 162Pedro Varela-Vazquez and Manuel González-López9 Evolution and change of the Galician innovation system andpolicies 188Manuel González-López10 The evolution of regional innovation policy in a peripheralarea: the case of Apulia region 207Ivano Dileo and Francesco Losurdo11 Regional innovation system and policy in Malopolska, Poland:an institutionalised learning 225Marta Gancarczyk, Marta Najda-Janoszka andJacek Gancarczyk12 The Agder region: an innovation policy case study 252Roger Normann, Sissel Strickert and Jon P. KnudsenIndex 271