This book shows the possibilities and some of the limits of policy efforts made by business and government to bring about the renewal of badly hit regional economies, whose dependence on industries of the earlier phases of industrialization left them vulnerable to deindustrialization.

Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction /Phil Cooke -- 2 Promoting innovation through technology networks in North-Rhine—Westphalia /Robert Huggins & Reinhard Thomalla -- 3 New wave regional and urban revitalization strategies in Wales /Phil Cooke -- 4 From front-runner to also-ran — the transformation of a once-dominant industrial region: Pennsylvania, USA /Sabina Deitrick & Robert A. Beauregard -- 5 The restructuring of the steel industries in Germany and Great Britain /Jonathan Morris & Rolf Plake -- 6 Disintegration and reintegration of production clusters in the Ruhr area /Dieter Rehfeld -- 7 Groping towards reflexivity: responding to industrial change in Ontario /Meric S. Gertler -- 8 Industrial restructuring and further training in North-Rhine-Westphalia /Gerhard Bosch -- 9 Training policy and practice in Wales and North-Rhine-Westphalia /Sara Davies -- 10 The industrial transformation of the Great Lakes Region /Richard Florida -- 11 The dash for gas — consequences and opportunities /Richard Calverley Watson -- 12 Restructuring policies: the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition /Heiderose Kilper & Gerald Wood -- 13 Keeping to the high road: learning, reflexivity and associative governance in regional economic development /Phil Cooke -- References -- Index.