Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Welcoming Address -- Introduction -- 1. Regional Development: A Practical Point of View -- 1.1 Innovation and Regional Development in the EEC -- 1.2 The Role of the Commission of the European Communities in Regional Development Policies in Europe -- 1.3 A Businessman's Perspective of Regional Policy -- 2. Regional Disparities in Europe -- 2.1 Structural and Regional Differences in Economic Development in the Countries of the European Community -- 2.2 Regional Disparities in Europe: Interpretation and Political Consequences -- 3. Regional Development Potentials and Strategies for Strengthening Regional Innovation Capacities -- 3.1 Regional Development Potentials and Innovation Capacities -- 3.2 Industrial Innovation and Spatial Systems: The Impact of Producer Services -- 3.3 Promoting And Inhibiting Factors In The Regional Environmental System -- 3.4 Industrial Innovation and the Spatial Division of Labour -- 3.5 Endogenous Development between Myth and Reality: Pre-Requisites for Endogenous Development Strategies -- 4. Instruments of Innovation Oriented Regional Policies -- 4.1 Financial Instruments for the Promotion of Regional Development -- 4.2 Financial Transfers versus Real Transfers: Competing Strategies for Regional Economic Development -- 4.3 Information and Consulting as Instruments of Regional Development Policy: The Role of Public Agencies -- 4.4 Improvement of Regional Qualification Structures as a Task of Regional Economic Policy -- 4.5 Universities and Local Economic Development -- 5. Indigenous Strategies and their Application in Regions with Differing Growth Dynamics -- 5.1 Advanced Technology Policies and Strategies in Developing Regions -- 5.2 Indigenous Development Strategies in Peripheral Regions: The Example of Ireland -- 5.3 Problems of an Industrial Region in Decline: The Case of Birmingham -- 5.4 Innovation-Oriented Policy in Regions with High Growth Dynamics: Three Winners in the Process of Structural Change - A Comparison of Baden-Württemberg, Massachusetts and Emilia Romagna -- 5.5 Endogenous Development Strategies in Agglomerations -- 6. Perspectives of Regional Development -- 6.1 Perspectives of Innovation-Oriented Regional Development Strategies -- 6.2 Regional Economic Development and Innovation-Oriented Measures: Summary and Perspectives -- Contributors