Constructing regional advantage and smart specialisation: Comparison of two European policy concepts;Vantaggi regionali e specializzazione intelligente: Due concetti di policy Europea a confronto

Scienze Regionali

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-68

  Boschma, Ron ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constructing regional advantage; Regional cohesion policy; Smart specialisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909982445     PISSN: 17203929     EISSN: 2035603X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3280/SCRE2014-001004     Document Type: Article

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