Innovation Dynamics and Resilience: A Crucial Agenda for the Future of Regional Studies and Policy

Abstract

The world is in a delicate situation. Taking into consideration only the events that made the headlines during the summer of 2018, we now understand how volatile and fragile the environment we are living in is. For example, wildfires have had disastrous consequences from California to Portugal; the oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up; and a massive floating island of plastics, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is expanding at an alarming rate.