1. Innovation on the planning theory agenda - an introduction.- 2. Calculate, communicate and innovate.- 3. Planning and innovation in a collaborative framework.- 4. Politicians' roles in planning - seen or ignored? What do we know about politicians' roles in planning?.- 5. Strategic turn in planning and the role of institutional innovation.- 6. Sustainable development - a question of 'modernization' or degrowth'?.- 7. To reduce social inequality through urban planning: the potential for innovation.- 8. Climate leadership: developing innovative strategic tools to improve the partnership-mode of planning.- 9. Innovative planning in rural, depopulating areas: conditions, capacities & goals.- 10. Lost or found? Translating innovative participation.- 11. Planning for innovation as innovative planning?.- 12. Innovation in planning theory, the upcoming perspectives.