This popular-science publication emanating from Mistra Urban Futures, a centre for sustainable development at Chalmers University of Technology and the Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The book represents a final, summative contribution from a three-year transdisciplinary project called the Research Forum (RF), a collaborative platform in the interface between academics and practitioners. The Research Forum, in turn, is Mistra Urban Futures’ contribution to a large European Union-sponsored project for sustainable development titled ‘Urban Rural Gothenburg’ (URG), with the overarching aim to create improved conditions for green innovation and green business development between the city and the countryside. In this book, URG represents the anchor point (case study) around which its empirical part revolves, while the theoretical, analytic and editorial superstructure of the bookreflects the purview of the Research Forum. The book is a comprehensive publication in academic dimensions, consisting of 40 chapters written by 73 authors, representing an entire spectrum of roles and assignments within the project, including several associated actors, not directly connected to the project. We interpret the fact that so many actors have shown interest in participating in this publication as a sign of the book’s relevance and importance for developing the pentahelix model within future sustainability projects.