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This report documents the recent and dramatic pivot in the USA’s federal industrial policy arena towards a much more explicitly place-based policy approach. This place-based approach is aimed at revitalising economically weaker regions in the national service of upgrading the US’s technological base...

Drawing on various literatures on the contributions of universities to regional development, this paper explores the strategies and practices that would allow universities to make significant contributions to regional sustainability transition processes and policies.

The paper addresses one of the major weaknesses of transformative innovation policy: the lack of solutions for institutionalising experimentation beyond pilots. Drawing insights from literature and real-world examples, it provides tentative advice on how policies should be designed to increase the...


Digitalization can play a crucial role in sustainable development in Europe. The range of applications is vast and includes the exploitation of digital technologies to improve efficiency of resource use and energy consumption, to broaden access to clean water and sanitation, to facilitate the...




