OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: Piedmont, Italy 2009


Book Description

The Piedmont area of Italy is one of the top ten manufacturing regions in Europe and enjoys the highest levels of business investment in R&D in Italy. This report reviews how Piedmont’s new regional strategy supports innovation and how its efforts can be improved.




OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: 15 Mexican States 2009


Book Description

This report reviews how both national and state policies in Mexico can better support regional innovation systems and includes profiles of 15 states.




OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation Regions and Innovation Policy


Book Description

Regions and Innovation Policy addresses the needs of national and regional governments for greater clarity on how to strengthen the innovation capacity of regions.




OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation: Catalonia, Spain 2010


Book Description

This review of regional innovation assesses how to improve Catalonia's current strategy and actions in order to boost its innovation system through both its own programmes and those of Spain and the European Union.




OECD Territorial Reviews: Venice, Italy 2010


Book Description

This Review of Venice, Italy, offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region’s economy and the extent to which its land use, labour market and environmental policies embrace a metropolitan vision.







OECD Urban Policy Reviews, Korea 2012


Book Description

This Urban Policy Review of Korea assesses Korea’s approach to sustainable urban development as expressed in its recent urban policy reform and national green growth agenda. The government has responded to the economic, environmental and social ...




Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Lombardy, Italy 2011


Book Description

This review finds that Lombardy is the most prosperous region in Italy. But the region faces long-term challenges emerging from an ageing population, immigration and slow adaptation of practices and technologies to enhance productivity.




OECD Regional Development Studies Regional Innovation in Piedmont, Italy From Innovation Environment to Innovation Ecosystem


Book Description

To make the most of its longstanding tradition of manufacturing and innovation, Piedmont, Italy, is undertaking a process of industrial transition, the success of which may be linked to an updated approach to its regional innovation policy. This should include promoting technology and non-technology driven innovation, building the innovation competences of micro- and small enterprises in addition to medium and large ones, better connecting regional innovation actors, and ensuring that innovation contributes to the region’s broader development goals such as sustainable regional development.