This book reflects current outputs from the research of the memberinstitutions of the Network of Spatial Research and Planning in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe—SPA-CE.net and their contribution to professional debate on the role of the public sector in innovative local economic and territorial development in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. The ambition of this book, published in collaboration with the European Alliance for Innovation, is to foster broader discussion on challenges and changes in the position of the public sector in the development and spread of innovations across different sectors. The SPA-CE.net follows with this book its mission to ensure sustainable development on the European continent by providing spatial research results to policymakers, scientists and the interested public,to contribute significantly to improving the quality of life,to enhancing the protection and management of Europe’s cultural and natural heritage as well as creating new jobs and spurring economic growth and to mobilising Europe’s potential for research and practical application in the field of sustainable spatial development.

本书反映了中欧、东欧和东南欧空间研究和规划网络成员机构的研究成果-CE.net网站以及他们对有关公共部门在中环创新性地方经济和领土发展中的作用的专业辩论的贡献，东欧和东南欧。本书与欧洲创新联盟（European Alliance for Innovation）合作出版，旨在推动更广泛的讨论公共部门在不同部门创新发展和传播过程中所面临的挑战和变化。水疗中心-CE.net网站本书的使命是通过向决策者、科学家和感兴趣的公众提供空间研究成果，确保欧洲大陆的可持续发展，为提高生活质量、加强对欧洲文化和自然遗产的保护和管理作出重大贡献以及创造新的就业机会，刺激经济增长，调动欧洲在可持续空间发展领域的研究和实际应用潜力。