About the Author: JAVIER ALFONSO-GIL Professor of Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain PAUL BENNEWORTH ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle, UK GUIDO BENZLER is a Manager at Deloitte Consulting in Düsseldorf, Germany ULRICH BLUM Professor for Economic Policy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany RICCARDO CAPPELLIN Professor for Economics, Università Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy PHIL COOKE Professor in Regional Development, Founding Director of Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, UK STUART DAWLEY Research Fellow, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle, UK JÜRGEN EGELN Senior Researcher, Industrial Economics and International Management, ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany DELPHINE GALLAUD Researcher, Institute des Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Socio-économie, Université Paris Dauphine, France SANDRA GOTTSCHALK Research Fellow, Industrial Economics and International Management, ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany DOUGLAS HAGUE Associate Fellow, Templeton College, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of Managerial Economics, Manchester Business School, UK REBECCA HARDING Chief Economist, The Work Foundation, London, UK MICHAEL KRAUS Senior Manager, Kraus Technology Consulting, Munich, Germany JORDI MOLAS-GALLART Research Fellow, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK SIMONE MÜLLER Research Assistant, Dresden University of Technology, Germany CHRISTIAN RAMMER Senior Researcher, Industrial Economics and International Management, ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany ANTONIA SAEZ-CALA Associate Professor in Regional Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain ALFRED SPIELKAMP Professor in Economics, University of Applied Science, Gelsenkirchen, Germany MICHAEL STEINER Director of the Institute of Technology and Research Policy, Joanneum Research Centre, Graz, and Professor for Economics, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria ANDRE TORRE Professor for Economics and Research Director, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, France