Coordination-mix: The hidden face of STI policy

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 367-389

  Magro, Edurne ^a   Navarro, Mikel ^a   Zabala Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel ^b,c  

^a Orkestra Basque Institute of Competitiveness and Deusto Business School   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coordination mix; Innovation policy; Multi level governance; Policy mix; Regional innovation system; Science policy; STI policy; Technology policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000218803     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12090     Document Type: Article

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