The role of interactive learning to close the "innovation gap" in SME-based local economies: A furniture cluster in the basque country and its key policy implications

European Planning Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-370

  Parrilli, M D ^a   Aranguren, M J ^a   Larrea, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; FIRM SIZE; INNOVATION; LEARNING; POLICY MAKING; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

BASQUE COUNTRY; SPAIN;

EID: 77950996668     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310903497660     Document Type: Article

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