Contents: Preface 1. Interactive Governance and Social Complexity (A. Amin and J. Hausner) 2. The Foundational Bearing of Complexity (R. Delorme) 3. Cognitive Networks and Self-organization in a Complex Socio-economic Environment (M. Orillard) 4. Collectivist versus Individualist Perspectives on the Institutional Transition Process - Some Methodological Remarks (J. Lange-von Kulessa) 5. The Governance of Complexity and the Complexity of Governance: Preliminary Remarks on Some Problems and Limits of Economic Guidance (B. Jessop) 6. The Nature of Institutional Change: Managing Rival Dependencies (R. van Tulder and W. Ruigrok) 7. 'Time-Space Embeddedness' and 'Geo-governance' of Cross-border Regional Modes of Growth: Their Nature and Dynamics in East Asian Cases (N.-L. Sum) 8. Emergence of Path-dependent Mixed Economies in Central Europe (B. Chavance and E. Magnin) 9. From Patient to Active Agent: An Institutional Analysis of the Russian Border Town of Vyborg (R. Kosonen) 10. Transitional Problems in the Russian Agriculture Sector: A Historical-institutiona Perspective (S. Stahl) 11. The Globalization of European Research and Technology Organizations (RTOs) (M. Kluth and J. Andersen) Index