Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development

Transition Management (TM) is an approach for tackling the complex issue of sustainable development. Its goal is to re-orient development trajectories by identifying and restructuring unsustainable systems. The EU-funded TREND project combines 'transition' with 'resilience-building' processes in framing novel strategies based on the Evolutionary Economy’s assumptions, which focus on interdependencies, competition, growth, structural change and resource constraints. The goal is to stimulate regional diversification as a co-creation of solutions for development problems implementing transitional tailored placed-based innovation policies. TREND will examine EU-US peripheral areas and leading regions gap by outlining a transition agenda for the future Cohesion policy. TREND’s findings will be delivered by the Open Access Toolkit – a web platform accessible by community users, policymakers, investors and financial stakeholders.