All Outputs (41)

The importance of regional scenarios for low carbon transitions: The case of Wales (2015)
Journal Article

This paper examines the complexities of modelling a regional energy system in the context of Wales, and in the process, examines the role of regions in low carbon transitions. Despite a wealth of studies at national level, it can be challenging to de... Read More about The importance of regional scenarios for low carbon transitions: The case of Wales.

Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance (2014)
Book Chapter

As the first industrial nation, the UK was one of the earliest countries to experience the industrialisation of agriculture, a process that led to an increase in productivity, with more and more food produced by fewer and fewer people. As a result of... Read More about Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance.

Retrofit 2050: Critical challenges for urban transitions (2014)
Report

Scaling up retrofit presents a number of critical challenges for the transition to urban sustainability. Drawing together insights from the EPSRC Retrofit 2050 project this briefing sets out key success factors that need to be in place to deliver sus... Read More about Retrofit 2050: Critical challenges for urban transitions.

Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability (2014)
Report

What would a sustainable future look like for Cardiff and South East Wales?

This report describes three distinctive long term (2050) city regional
futures: i) Connected Cardiff; ii) Compact Cardiff–Wilderness Valleys;
and iii) Orchard Cardiff Ci... Read More about Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability.

Sustainable regeneration: A guiding vision towards low-carbon transition? (2014)
Journal Article

While the concept of sustainable development brings together concepts of economic, environmental and social sustainability, much has been said regarding inherent tensions between them. Conflicts between economic and environmental objectives, in parti... Read More about Sustainable regeneration: A guiding vision towards low-carbon transition?.

Urban retrofit in Cardiff city-region: Reframing sustainability and economic development (2012)
Report

Renewable energy innovation and governance in Wales: A regional innovation system approach (2012)
Journal Article

This paper draws on research commissioned to investigate the regional innovation system of Wales on green innovation, focusing on the renewable energy sub-sectors of wind, solar and biomass. It shows how many innovative firms operate within regional... Read More about Renewable energy innovation and governance in Wales: A regional innovation system approach.

Trends and drivers of the knowledge economy (2010)
Book Chapter

This ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that kn... Read More about Trends and drivers of the knowledge economy.

Evolutionary economic geography, regional systems of innovation and high-tech clusters (2010)
Book Chapter

Green Innovation: Is Wales leading the Way in 'Green' Regional Innovation Systems? (2009)
Report

Territorial knowledge dynamics and the application of biotechnology in the food and energy sectors: Wales report, report, eurodite: Regional trajectories to the knowledge economy, a dynamic model (2009)
Report

Territorial knowledge dynamics and the application of biotechnology in the food and energy sectors: Wales report, report, eurodite: Regional trajectories to the knowledge economy, a dynamic model (2008)
Report

Regional Knowledge Economies: Markets, Clusters and Innovation (2007)
Book

This original and timely book presents the most comprehensive, empirically based analysis of clustering dynamics in the high-technology sector across liberal and co-ordinated market economies.

By carefully exploring and comparing ICT and biotechno... Read More about Regional Knowledge Economies: Markets, Clusters and Innovation.

Trends and drivers of the knowledge economy in seven business sectors, report, eurodite: Regional trajectories to the knowledge economy, a dynamic model (2007)
Report

Digital knowledge exploitation: ICT, memory institutions and innovation from cultural assets (2006)
Journal Article

There has been considerable recognition of the regional embeddedness of the knowledge-based economy and its uneven geographical incidence, with mainly urban or metropolitan areas being the crucibles of knowledge-intensive activities. Drawing from rec... Read More about Digital knowledge exploitation: ICT, memory institutions and innovation from cultural assets.

Regional innovation systems and the labour market: A comparison of five regions (2006)
Journal Article

This paper reviews the concept of Regional Innovation Systems with particular attention on the labour market dimension. It argues that the labour force as a repository of skills and knowledge plays a key role in generating knowledge flows within Regi... Read More about Regional innovation systems and the labour market: A comparison of five regions.

Regional innovation systems and social inclusion: From promoting innovation to sustaining integration, working paper, the regional impact of the information society on employment and integration - WP9 (2005)
Report

Servizi e Innovazioni nelle Pmi: Dal Quadro Interpretativo al Caso Toscano/ Services \& Innovation: From the explanatory framework to the Tuscan case study (2002)
Book Chapter

The paper Services \& Innovation: from the explanatory framework to the Tuscan case study, drawing from a recent empirical research conducted in Tuscany, analyses the relationship between advanced business services and innovation. The authors investi... Read More about Servizi e Innovazioni nelle Pmi: Dal Quadro Interpretativo al Caso Toscano/ Services \& Innovation: From the explanatory framework to the Tuscan case study.

Urban transitions in context: Comparing the Manchester and Cardiff city regions
Preprint / Working Paper

Sustainability in a climate of austerity: Responses from UK city-regions
Presentation / Conference Contribution