Regional Innovation Policy Beyond 'Best Practice': Lessons from Sweden

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 550-568

  Martin, Roman ^a   Moodysson, Jerker ^a   Zukauskaite, Elena ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Innovation policy; Knowledge bases; Regional innovation systems; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871212308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18687873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13132-011-0067-2     Document Type: Article

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