00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862408815 Buklod 20210420095234.0 m | | ta 210420s1998 enka rb |001 0|eng d 0198290187 9780198290186 (iLib)UPBAG-00039790578 OLC BAG rda eng HC 240 C66 1998 Cooke, Philip (Philip N.) author. The associational economy firms, regions, and innovation Philip Cooke and Kevin Morgan. Oxford, [England] Oxford University Press 1998. viii, 247 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-238) and index. The Associational Economy: Introduction -- The Institutions of Innovation -- Firms as Laboratories: Re-inventing the Corporation -- The Region as a Nexus of Learning Processes -- Baden-Wurttemberg: The Evolution of a 'Model Region' -- Emilia-Romagna: From Civic Culture to Global Networks -- Wales: Innovating through Global-Local Interaction -- The Basque Conundrum: Regional Autonomy and Economic Decline -- Evolutionary Processes and Regional Practices. This text explores issues of corporate reorganization in the context of heightened global competition. It concludes that the associational economy may be the "third way" between state and market co-ordination of modern economies. Regional planning Europe. Research, Industrial Europe. Technological innovations Economic aspects Europe. Competition, International. Europe Economic conditions 1945- Regional disparities. Morgan, Kevin 1953- author. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN HC 240 C66 1998 Book