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" Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development : "
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BL
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985849
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b740219
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| Main Entry
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Eskelinen, Heikki.
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Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development : : Specialization and Prosperity in Small Open Economies.
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London :: Routledge,, 1997.
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Routledge frontiers of political economy
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1 online resource (273 pages)
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0203030168
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: 9780203030165
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables and cases; About the authors; Foreword by Michael Storper; Preface; Regional specialisation and localised learning; An introduction; Ubiquitification, knowledge and localised capabilites; Sustainable patterns of specialisation in a globalised economy; Firm competitiveness through knowledge creation; Localised capabilities and the competitiveness of regions and countries; Small countries, localised learning and lack of learning: the cases of furniture, fish and phones.
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Small nations: how to sustain prosperity in open, low-tech economiesComfort and competitiveness: the wooden furniture industry; Natural resources and the institutional endowment: the fishing industry; Footloose communications: the mobile phone industry; Conclusions and policy implications; Towards a learning-based industrial and regional policy; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index.
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This book points the way out of a dilemma created by recent industrial theory and policy: is it possible for countries which are not destined to be leading high-tech powers to take advantage of the current trend for increasingly open markets?
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Competition.
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Economic development.
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International economic integration.
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Regional economics.
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Communities - Urban Groups.
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Competition.
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Economic development.
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International economic integration.
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Regional economics.
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Social Sciences.
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Sociology Social History.
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| Dewey Classification
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330.122338.9
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HT388 .C66 1998eb
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Hannibalsson, Ingjaldur.
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Malmberg, Anders.
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Maskell, Peter.
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Storper, Michael.
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Vatne, Eirik.
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