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Regional Paths of Institutional Anchoring in the Global Economy. The Case of the North-East of England and Aragón

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Drawing on recent developments in the literature on spatial-industrial networking, governance and regional industrial policy, this chapter will discuss changes in industrial policy and business support at the regional level. Over the last decade, regions, to use the expression of Hay (1994, p. 1), have become “strategic sites of economic intervention”. Regions are seen as the sites where, by the mobilisation of internal resources and the creation of “customised spaces” for external investors, clusters of related firms and support organisations can be created able to compete in an increasingly global market place. Throughout the developed world, tendencies can be observed towards regionalisation of industrial policy and the creation of regional institutional capacity to facilitate local processes of networking and clustering.

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Lagendijk, A. (2000). Regional Paths of Institutional Anchoring in the Global Economy. The Case of the North-East of England and Aragón. In: Elsner, W., Groenewegen, J. (eds) Industrial Policies After 2000. Recent Economic Thought, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3996-0_12

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