Revitalising Lagging Regions

Mariachiara Barzotto is an Assistant Professor in International Business at the University of Newcastle, UK.Carlo Corradini is an Associate Professor in Regional Economics in the Department of Management at the University of Birmingham, UK.Felicia M. Fai is an Associate Professor in International Business in the School of Management at the University of Bath, UK.Sandrine Labory is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ferrara, Italy.Philip R. Tomlinson is an Associate Professor in Business Economics in the School of Management at the University of Bath, UK.

• Foreword Alessandro Rainoldi Foreword Dominique Foray List of Contributors Executive Summary 1. Introduction 2. Perspectives on Smart Specialisation Policies in Lagging Regions 3. An Extra-Regional Collaborative Approach to Smart Specialisation 4. Smart Specialisation in Eastern Europe: Insights from two lagging Polish Regions5. Transformation and Transition to Industry 4.0: the Slovenian Smart Transformational Approach 6. Industry 4.0, Regional Disparities and Transformative Industrial Policy 7. The future of place-based innovation policy (as if ‘lagging regions’ really mattered) Glossary