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Industrial development centres (IDCs) as a regional innovation tool: comparing policy practices in Finspang, Sweden and in the Hunter Valley, Australia.
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Innovation: Management, Policy, & Practice
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October 1, 2005
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This article analyses what happens when policy-makers use and implement their policy concepts and their knowledge of regional innovation and economic development within their regional contexts. Our focus is on the policy implementation phase, especially the implications of how policy-makers and firms, in different institutional settings, interpret similar policy concepts in different ways. The regional innovation policy concept explored is the conceptual idea of Industrial Development Centres (IDCs), which constitutes an example of an innovation support organisation. This policy concept was investigated through an empirical study of two cases, namely an IDC in ...
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