Strategic Planning in the Technology-Driven World: A Guidebook for Innovation-Led Development

A state-of-the-art planning guide from the US Economic Development Administration targeted at helping strategy-makers adopt a realistic, principles-based approach to innovation-based strategic planning. Providing simultaneously conceptual framework, empirical evidence and practical tools, it definitely captures the change in the planning paradigm which must go along with the changing nature of economic development dynamics. Other pluses include links for diverse (American) support institutions and programmes.

Economic Development Administration (2001) ‘Strategic Planning in the Technology-Driven World: A Guidebook for Innovation-Led Development’, Washington: U.S. Department of Commerce.