In promoting European regional development, policymakers tend to pursue either an offensive, future-oriented or a defensive, tradition-preserving type of policy. Backed by theoretical notions and case evidence from an “ordinary” region, i. e. the Italian island of Sardinia, the following paper argues that European regions could benefit more from a “connective” type of policy that aims to connect lobal trends with local traditions.
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This paper was prepared during Paul Benneworth’s visiting fellowship at the University of Twente. The authors wish to thank Henk Donkers, the Regione Sardegna and I&O-Research for input and comments and gratefully acknowledge BBT and IPP for their support.
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Gert-Jan Hospers, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Business, Public Administration & Technology (BBT), University of Twente, The Netherlands.., Paul Benneworth, Academic Fellow, Institute for Policy and Practice (IPP), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.. What Type of Regional Policy for Europe?. Intereconomics 40, 336–344 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-005-0164-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-005-0164-1