Policy entrepreneurs and promotion of Australian state knowledge economies

Australian Journal of Political Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 423-438

  Mintrom, Michael ^a,c   Salisbury, Chris ^b   Luetjens, Joannah ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Australia and New Zealand School of Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian state politics; knowledge economy; policy entrepreneurs; policy entrepreneurship; policymaking; technology transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906766208     PISSN: 10361146     EISSN: 17429536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2014.934657     Document Type: Article

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