The Associational Economy: Firms, Regions, and Innovation

by KevinMorgan (Author), PhilipCooke (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $68.41

  The Associational Economy focuses on the ways firms are rediscovering the importance of regions in their quest to improve competitiveness through innovation. Evidence from firm and governance practices in four European regions supports more general arguments of the emergence of an `associational' economy based on partnership, networking, and collective learning.