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The Copenhagen case is the first of OECD local green indicators studies. It identifies the drivers of progress for its clean-tech firms. And it shows how they can become a magnet for attracting investment to the country .The Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster (CCC) is a key contributor to the green transition of Denmark. However, despite strong development of the cluster firms, the clean-tech industry is now at thecentre of intense global competition and strategic choices will be essential. The report provides guidance for the choices to be made; highlighting those areas where further efforts need to concentrate both from the private and public sectors.The report argues for the significant role local institutions have to play in implementing national agendas for the transition to a green growth economy and also sometimes push for change. Measurement of progress needs to take account of both ends of the ‘national-local’ continuum. The Copenhagen green dashboard shows the significance of measuring progress as an analytical strategy for development. As the City of Copenhagen and the Capital Region demonstrates, a lot can be achieved through cooperation between national and local stakeholders.

Purpose - The paper seeks to investigate the changing and challenging spatial nature of the rising knowledge cities' knowledge precincts. Design/methodology/approach - The paper reviews the literature on recent knowledge precinct developments within the frame of innovation and urban economic competitiveness. The methodology develops a typological investigation and searches for useful insights for better understanding the fundamentals of knowledge precincts. The study exemplifies cases from Australia as well as other global best practices. Findings - The paper sheds light on the contemporary knowledge production of rising knowledge cities, and points out the changing spatial agglomeration of knowledge-intensive industries and the formation of new types of knowledge precincts as the spatial core of knowledge-based urban development. Originality/value - The paper provides an in-depth discussion on the changing spatial concepts of knowledge precincts and their vital role for the knowledge-based urban development of cities.

This study investigates the role of regional networks for economic development (RENEDs) in regions suffering from industrial dislocation. It proposes that RENEDs significantly affect regional development. It also investigates the aspects of RENEDs that promote interorganisational collaboration on projects, and examines how RENEDs foster and manage them. The research uses a case study approach, and presents two regions suffering from the decline of their main economic source. These regions are the Hunter region of New South Wales (Australia) and the León province of Castilla Y León (Spain). A pilot study and a survey were conducted in both regions. Three types of analysis were applied: network, statistical and qualitative. The research method makes it possible to replicate research and develop a theory of regional networks for economic development. The results show that success of RENEDs is determined by capital investment generated by the projects, their influence in changing the economic bases of the regions, and the improvement to regional network capital. This study found that frequency of communication is a structural element that significantly affects the production of projects. However, other variables affect projects, such as external pressures from globalisation, government policies and ideologies, and internal constraints from the public, private and civic sectors. This thesis concludes that RENEDs have an important role in regional planning through the formulation of specific projects that target economic disparity. RENEDs represent a system of relationship that enrich the network capital of the regions as an important asset for their future.