The global liberalisation of national regulated financial services’ sectors has opened up a wave of international mergers and acquisitions processes. To succeed with such processes, a positive relationship needs to be developed between involved parties. But actors within and outside involved...

Purpose – Clusters and networks have become cornerstones of regional development efforts. This paper discusses the ability of regional strategic networks (RSN) to bring about cluster effects and how structural factors will affect performance of RSNs. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to generate additional insight into how the Triple Helix approach can be practiced in a regional context. Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes an attempt to develop innovation in a Swedish region, using the Triple Helix approach. The case...