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Edurne Magro
Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad
Spain
Jesús M. Valdaliso
Universidad del País Vasco – Facultad de Economía y Empresa
Spain
Vol 28 No 2 (2019): Special Issue. Studies on regional innovation policies in the last two decades: from regional systems of innovation to intelligent specialization strategies, Articles, pages 53-70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.28.2.6156
Submitted: 12-07-2019 Accepted: 12-07-2019 Published: 12-09-2019
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Regional resilience, which can be defined as the regional ability to resist, adapt to, and create new regional paths  from an economic crisis or external shocks, is one of the most explored issues in recent years in the literature of evolutionary economic geography. The latest advances in this topic show that resilience has a multi-dimensional character and among other factors, give importance to the role that institutions and people play. Public policies as important elements of the regional institutional context shape this ability to change. This paper focuses on understanding the relationship between innovation policy and regional resilience. For that purpose, the paper includes an historical analysis of the Basque Country region, an old industrial region that has been able to resist, recover and renew itself after different economic crises.

 

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