Healing the economic and social wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic will take time, but the long road to recovery presents a unique opportunity for regional business leaders, policymakers, civil society, and other key stakeholders to build back better. To catalyze change and succeed in the post-pandemic era, economic development policy and practice must see the crisis as an opportunity to rethink and redesign regional economic systems. Edited by EIPG Senior Partner, Dr. Fred Olayele – with contributions from 21 academics, practitioners, and policy experts from New York, Florida, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, and Texas – this new volume presents case studies and deductive arguments for deploying cutting-edge solutions, mobilizing resources, and engaging key stakeholders on the road to building a more inclusive, equitable, resilient, and sustainable economy.