Place-renewing leadership: Trajectories of change for mature manufacturing regions in Europe

Policy Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 457-474

  Bailey, David ^a   Bellandi, Marco ^b   Caloffi, Annalisa ^b   de Propris, Lisa ^c  

^a Department of Economics Finance and Accounting   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Mature industrial regions; Place leadership; Public policy; Regional economic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953908957     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442871003723408     Document Type: Article

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