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| Title | Regional Innovation Systems as Public Goods |
| Abstract | The paper examines the role of support institutions in knowledge production and innovation, focusing on a regional level. These institutions are shown to be crucial in assisting firms to meet knowledge, skills, financial and other needs that markets fail to provide. The building of global-local relations network management skills by successful firms is shown to be particularly important in this process. The paper investigates and gives examples of the ways in which technological and other standard services in support of regional innovation may be provided. It makes policy recommendations based upon good practice shown by the cases discussed. Finally, the paper considers which role is most appropriately discharged by which governance level, from regional to national and global, including international and supranational agencies such as UNIDO. |
| Date | 2006 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Pages | 44 pages |
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