“…Studies on policy learning in the regional development and innovation field have provided insights on, among other things, policy change in regions, mechanisms and sources of policy learning, and the organizational capacities required for different types of learning in the innovation field (e.g. Borrás, 2011;González-López, 2019;Nauwelaers and Wintjes, 2008). Policy learning, however, is usually focused on an instrumental type of learning (an updating of beliefs that occurs through trial and error or through others' experience), which centres on analytical capacities fostered through peer reviews, monitoring exercises, benchmarking and personal mobility (e.g.…”