Regional social capital: Embeddedness, innovation networks and regional economic development

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1834-1846

  Rutten, Roel ^a   Boekema, Frans ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Innovation; Networks; Regional development; Social capital

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INNOVATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY;

REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL INNOVATION NETWORK;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITIVENESS; INNOVATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 36148938776     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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