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Training and Enterprise Councils as Facilitators of a Networked Approach to Local Economic Development: Forms, Mechanisms, and Existing Interpretations

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  • R Huggins

    (Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, University of Wales Cardiff, 33 Corbett Road, Cardiff CF1 3EB, Wales)

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The author reviews and examines the relevant literature concerning the role that networks have played in the local economic development activities of Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs), The analysis focuses on TECs as actors within, and catalysts of, networks—specifically at the local level. TEC mechanisms for economic development and the forms of TEC-facilitated networks are considered, and it is argued that a networking approach has gradually permeated TEC strategies both as a specific policy tool and as an instrument for improving the effectiveness of other support initiatives and programmes. The author finds the existence of a dichotomy between the relatively positive finds of Government-sponsored evaluations of TECs and those of more critical academic studies.

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  • R Huggins, 1997. "Training and Enterprise Councils as Facilitators of a Networked Approach to Local Economic Development: Forms, Mechanisms, and Existing Interpretations," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 15(3), pages 273-284, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:15:y:1997:i:3:p:273-284
    DOI: 10.1068/c150273
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    1. J Peck & M Jones, 1995. "Training and Enterprise Councils: Schumpeterian Workfare State, or What?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 27(9), pages 1361-1396, September.
    2. Trevor Hart & Graham Haughton & Jamie Peck, 1996. "Accountability and the Non-elected Local State: Calling Training and Enterprise Councils to Local Account," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(4), pages 429-441.
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