Regional Development Agencies in Europe

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- 1 Regional Development Agencies in Europe An Introduction and Framework for Analysis -- 2 Regional Development Agencies in Western Europe A Survey of Key Characteristics and Trends -- PART II RDAS IN WESTERN EUROPE - NATIONAL SURVEYS -- 3 Regional Development Institutions in Austria Trends in Organisation, Policies and Implementation -- 4 Regional Development Agencies in the Netherlands Twenty Years of Shareholding -- 5 Regional Development Agencies in Denmark Towards a Danish Approach to Bottom-up Regional Policy -- PART III RDAS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -- 6 Regional Development Agencies in Poland -- 7 Regional Development Agencies in the Czech Republic A Future Solution to Current Problems -- 8 Transition, Institutions and Regional Development in Hungary, BAZ County -- PART IV RDAS, REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- 9 Changing Aspects of the Role of Regional Development Agencies in Flanders (Belgium) The Case of West Flanders -- 10 Regional Development Institutions Rural Development in the UK -- 11 Enterprise in Scotland A Mid-Term Assessment of an Institutional Innovation for Economic Development -- 12 Regional Development and Political Democracy -- PART V RDAS AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP -- 13 Regional Renewal The Development Agency as Animateur -- 14 The Case of ERVET in Emilia-Romagna Towards a Second-Generation Regional Development Agency -- 15 Entrepreneurs and Business People in Urban Growth Coalitions Place Attachment and Active Participation in Urban Economic Development -- PART VI POLICIES AND EVALUATION OF ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT -- 16 An Analysis of Regional Development Agencies in Spain from an Endogenous Development Perspective