Sustainable Regional Development: Revitalizing Regions through Innovation

Many communities and regions are being left behind in the new economic order. The book starts with the premise that, in today’s knowledge-based economy, innovation is key, but that only seems to happen in larger urban centres. It seems that smaller centres and peripheral regions can only look forward to decline and eventual irrelevance, but this need not be the case.

Wherever there are people, there is the potential to innovate. This book demonstrates that innovators are not limited to inven...