Urban Networks, Learning And Innovation

نویسندگان

  • Bruce Wilson
  • Anne Badenhorst
  • David Charles
  • Chris Duke
چکیده

For more than a decade, the OECD has encouraged research and debate on the concept of learning regions, and its relevance to policy interventions intended to promote economic and social development. CRITICAL (City-Regions as Intelligent Territories: Inclusion, Competitiveness and Learning), a Europeanfunded project, has contributed to research on this and related ideas, focusing on five 'city-regions'. The CRITICAL research team involved researchers from universities in each of Tampere, Finland; Dublin in Ireland; Dortmund in Germany; Newcastle-on-Tyne in England; and additionally, from Melbourne, Australia.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007