Territorial contractsIn many countries, regional development policies - or spatial managemnt policies - are implemented through diferent kind of contracts: State-Regions contracts, most part of the time, but also sometimes contracts between severam local governments, or between local entities.
The OECD has done a very apreciable study about contracts for supporting multi level governance on innovation, available at http://www.oecd.org/innovation/policyplatform/48137505.pdf but also comparisons between several countries (France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Canada, available at http://www.oecd.org/gov/linkingregionsandcentralgovernmentscontractsforregionaldevelopment.htm
A very intersting experience is in course in Columbia where a strong policy for the development of the territories is commited through the "contratos plan". A presentation (in Spanish only) is available at https://www.dnp.gov.co/Gobierno/ContratosPlan.aspx
The OECD has done a very apreciable study about contracts for supporting multi level governance on innovation, available at http://www.oecd.org/innovation/policyplatform/48137505.pdf but also comparisons between several countries (France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Canada, available at http://www.oecd.org/gov/linkingregionsandcentralgovernmentscontractsforregionaldevelopment.htm
A very intersting experience is in course in Columbia where a strong policy for the development of the territories is commited through the "contratos plan". A presentation (in Spanish only) is available at https://www.dnp.gov.co/Gobierno/ContratosPlan.aspx