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City-regional futures in context: insights from the Retrofit 2050 project (2017)
Book Chapter
De Laurentis, C., Eames, M., Hunt, M., & Dixon, T. (2017). City-regional futures in context: insights from the Retrofit 2050 project. In M. Eames, T. Dixon, M. Hunt, & S. Lannon (Eds.), Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World (207--226). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119007241.ch13

Research findings from the EPSRC funded Retrofit 2050 project, aim to advance and explore the theoretical and practical understandings that underpin a shift to sustainability of UK's core city regions in 2050. Utilising a participatory back-casting a... Read More about City-regional futures in context: insights from the Retrofit 2050 project.

Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern? (2015)
Book Chapter
De Laurentis, C., Hodson, M., Marvin, S., & Thompson, M. (2015). Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?. In Retrofitting Cities: Priorities, Governance and Experimentation (18). London: Routledge

This chapter focuses the manner in which changing UK policies and priorities touch down and are reconstituted in two UK city-regions: Greater Manchester and Cardiff city-region and it is structured as follows. First, it briefly considers how national... Read More about Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?.

Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance (2014)
Book Chapter
Carla, D. L., & Cooke, P. (2014). Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance. In M. K. Goodman, & C. Sage (Eds.), Knowing Brand Wales (205--225). Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582702-10

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.

Trends and drivers of the knowledge economy (2010)
Book Chapter
Cooke, P. N., & De Laurentis, C. (2010). Trends and drivers of the knowledge economy. In P. N. Cooke, C. D. Laurentis, S. MacNeill, & C. Collinge (Eds.), Platforms of Innovation: Dynamics of New Industrial Knowledge Flows (1--26). Edward Elgar Publishing

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.

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
Bellini, N., & De Laurentis, C. (2002). Servizi e Innovazioni nelle Pmi: Dal Quadro Interpretativo al Caso Toscano/ Services \& Innovation: From the explanatory framework to the Tuscan case study. In S. Nuti, & A. Piccaluga (Eds.), Ricerca Scientifica e Nuove Imprese High Tech/ Scientific Research and New High Tech Firms (38). Giunti

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.