EditoriALL

EditoriALL
Wiktor Szydarowski, director ESPON EGTC

Territorial cohesion, innovations and regions lagging behind
Ivan Bartoš, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitisation and Minister of Regional Development

A New European Innovation Agenda
Mariya Gabriel is the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

Territorial Analyses
Open Invitation for Territorial Analyses

Partnerships for regional innovation: A new strategic and systemic approach to innovation policy
Mikel Landabaso, Director Innovation and Growth; Margherita Bacigalupo, Scientific officer; Guia Bianchi, Researcher and policy analyst; Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Regional partnerships support Europe’s innovation capacity
Tanya Hristova, Mayor of Gabrovo, Chair of the SEDEC Commission, European Committee of the Regions

Innovation at regional and local levels from a social perspective
Maurizio Mensi, Rapporteur for the opinion INT/996, A New European Innovation Agenda, European Economic and Social Committee

Regional innovation performance and regional comparative advantage of Czech regions
Viktor Kveton, Assoc. Prof. at Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development

A New European Innovation Agenda – a push for supporting innovation in Europe’s regions
Pirita Lindholm Director, European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN)

KHK data portal and local open data catalogue of the Hradec Králové region
Radmila Velnerová, Head of the analysis and management support department, Hradec Králové Region

RESTART Unit dealing with a Strategy of Economic Restructuring of Usti, Moravian-Silesian and Karlov
Simona Štastná, Department of Strategies and Analysis of Regional Policy and Housing Policy, RE:START Department, Ministry for Regional Development, Czech Republic

Entrepreneurial regional governance
The programme of the ESPON seminar in Prague, 7-8 December 2023

URBACT IV: Addressing urban challenges through cooperation and networking
Interview with Thomas de Béthune, Team Leader in DG Regio for the unit of Inclusive Growth Urban and Territorial and Teofil Ghercă, director of URBACT

Towards uniform greenhouse gas quantification in European territories
Kimmo Lylykangas, Professor of Architecture; Head of the Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies, Tallinn University of Technology

Cross-border housing markets: how to measure cross-border interrelations
Franziska Sielker, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy

The role of spatial planning in facilitating offshore renewable energy in Europe
Professor David Shaw and Hannah Jones, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool

Functional areas in the EU: From Cohesion Policy to practice through a pilot project
ESPON dialogue with project team and coordination

Entrepreneurial regional governance
ESPON Thematic Action Plans and how can one engage with ESPON

Outlook of the Swedish Presidency
Sverker Lindblad, Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Department for Rural Affairs, Division for Regional and Rural development