Much of this debate has been unnecessarily narrow in its focus on 'success stories' of regions, firms and sectors and in its failure to specify the precise links between firm-level governance and the institutional contexts within which firms are embedded. The research is comparative, draws upon a range of methodologies, and brings together a team of researchers in three UK institutions with colleagues and practitioners in Europe. The project involves aggregate level data analysis to examine the performance of regional economies and sectors as a basis for the selection of two case study regions in each country for further investigation. Selected regions include dynamic metropolitan regions and less successful peripheral regions. The project is based at the Centre on European Political Economy, Sussex European Institute .
Project working papers are now available for download.