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Green Economic Development is a means of maintaining competitiveness or even striving for increased competitiveness by selected sectors or the whole economy at national or sub-national level in times of climate change and environmental degradation.

Territorial development efforts need to be adapted to the specific situation and requirements of a given territory and its people.

Industrial policy refers to a group of instruments aimed at promoting economic transformation.

Meso organisations are established to promote economic development and improve competitiveness of a region by responding to a variety of permanent and temporary market and performance failures at the micro level.

Systemic Insight guides organisations and practitioners through a whole cycle of a change initiative and can be applied in all different fields of economic development like local and regional economic development, (global) value chain development, making markets work for the poor, cluster development, etc. The approach is based on the principles and ideas around intervening in complex systems. It also takes into account, that not all problems we are facing are complex and we need to be able to differentiate between different types of problems as we need to use different strategies to tackle them.

The actions to improve territorial or sectoral competitiveness and innovation systems must be seen as a process and not as a research project or a few interventions aimed directly at firms by a generous public sector.

Quality Infrastructure relates to metrology (the science of measurement), standardisation, testing and quality management (in the past, the acronym MSTQ was used), including certification and accreditation.