The first of these contextual factors, the three meta-narratives, show a degree of systematic macro-scale variation across Europe, and can therefore be described within the framework of the EDORA typologies. The second (assets and capacity) varies in a more unsystematic way across Europe. Its impact can therefore only be adequately assessed through some form of local or regional audit, as part of a neo-endogenous process for specifying intervention “mixes” at a region level. This is beyond the scope of this working paper, and the discussion which follows will focus primarily upon the role which the typologies might play in.
