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Engineering relationships for innovation: concerning the feasibility of public policy interventions to engineer inter-firm |
Haynes, Amanda
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Regional development literature and policy has, in recent years, increasingly focused
upon mechanisms for engendering inter-firm collaboration at a local level. Co-operation
and partnership are regarded as key to encouraging endogenous innovation in the regions
and thus to promoting balanced regional development. Using interview data from 30
companies located in one Irish regional agglomeration, this paper explores the feasibility
of public policy interventions to engender inter-firm collaboration in the private sector.
The interview data is used to chart the extensiveness and function of spontaneously
forming inter-firm ties within the case-study agglomeration. The preconditions for these
ties are explored and the relative attractiveness of local versus extra-local partners is
given particular consideration. These issues are drawn together to inform the overall
question regarding the potential for public policy to engineer such collaboration.
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Keyword(s):
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inter-firm collaboration; partnership; public policy intervention |
Publication Date:
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2005 |
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Type:
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Working paper |
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Peer-Reviewed:
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No |
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Language(s):
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English |
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Institution:
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University of Limerick |
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Citation(s):
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University of Limerick Department of Sociology Working Paper Series;WP2005-02
http://www.ul.ie/sociology/pubs/ |
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Publisher(s):
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Department of Sociology, University of Limerick |
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