In this paper we study $R$-boundedness of operator families $\mathcal{T}\subset \calL(X,Y)$, where $X$ and $Y$ are Banach spaces. Under cotype and type assumptions on $X$ and $Y$ we give sufficient conditions for $R$-boundedness. In the first part we show that certain integral operator are $R$-bounded. This will be used to obtain $R$-boundedness in the case that $\mathcal{T}$ is the range of an operator-valued function $T:\R^d\to \calL(X,Y)$ which is in a certain Besov space $B^{d/r}_{r,1}(\R^d;\calL(X,Y))$. The results will be applied to obtain $R$-boundedness of semigroups and evolution families, and to obtain sufficient conditions for existence of solutions for stochastic Cauchy problems.

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