Leadership of cluster policy: Lessons from the Austrian province of Styria

Policy Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-455

  MacNeill, Stewart ^a   Steiner, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clusters; Leadership; Public policy; Regional economic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953888312     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442871003723374     Document Type: Article

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