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instrumental in understanding the competitiveness and development challenges faced by a small peripheral economy in the European … competitiveness of the Portuguese economy and highlights the factors that affected its operationalization. Design …”, presented in 1994, particularly with regard to the recommended clusters and public policies, as well as the assessment and …
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need to be initiated in a way that supports the long-term development of actual business networks; and second, innovation … (innovation systems, clusters, networks) and industrial network studies (IMP and others). The authors make an “ideal type …
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knowledge networking in mature industrial clusters. To such end, it is assumed that proximity is not really what matters in … innovation (grounded in the resource based view and social capital approach) and industrial clusters/districts as theoretical … are usually involved in extra‐clusters networking, indicating that mere reliance on localized knowledge may result in …
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Clusters have basically been conceptualised as a concentration of firms that prosper on the basis of their interaction … development of information and telecommunications technologies have opened the playing field. New countries and regions can thus …‐operation structure such as a cluster, including all actors of the innovation system in a country or region. They can be called knowledge …
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implication of the study is the insight that business for development, will not automatically lead to business for equality, on a …
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organization of agriculture, comparing agricultural development in the USA and India, with a focus on changes in farm size over … time. Findings In the USA, unlimited individual land ownership has enabled the gradual, long-term development of scale …-by-side analysis of the USA and India and their radically different paths of agricultural development over time, and connects these …
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The effect of corruption in South Africa has seriously constrained development of the national economy and has …
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process includes the development of electronic links between government functions, across departmental boundaries and, even …
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Many developing countries have prepared plans particularly at the central level to guide tourism development, as they …, mainly aims at analyzing the shortcomings of the planning approaches to tourism development in developing countries by … tourism development. Concludes that there is the need for political stability, establishing supportive institutions and …
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required modifications. With the example of the Alpine region South Tyrol, this paper explains the errors that are likely to …
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