The variety of papers presented looks at:
Whilst many of these aspects are driven by market forces Creative Regions demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and is essential reading on how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.
Philip Cooke is University Research Professor in Regional Development and founding Director (1993) of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. He is a partner in Cardiff's ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Analysis of Genomics (CESAGen) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark.
Dafna Schwartz is a senior faculty member at the Department of Business Administration at Ben-Gurion University (Israel), head of the area of Entrepreneurship and High-Tech Management and director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and High-Tech Management. She is an economic consultant in Israel and abroad and a board member of leading Israeli corporations.