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New directions in regional innovation policy: a network model for generating entrepreneurship and economic development

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  • Robert Huggins
  • David Waite
  • Max Munday

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Lifting the economic performance of lagging regions continues to puzzle economic development practitioners and analysts. As a means of contributing some solutions to this puzzle, this paper examines a policy intervention that promotes regional development through a public–private-sector initiative that uses a network model to catalyze innovation-driven entrepreneurship. It focuses on a programme operated by the Alacrity Foundation in the region of Wales, UK. The paper argues that Alacrity’s model offers a novel means of attempting to facilitate regional development through a programme that intertwines elements relating to entrepreneurship, innovation, and network policy and practice. It is novel in the sense that it seeks to de-risk the entrepreneurial and innovation process in a regional environment that is not traditionally strong in this respect. It is concluded that such programmes indicate that policy is beginning to embrace a number of ideas emerging from theoretical work on the drivers of regional innovation and growth.

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  • Robert Huggins & David Waite & Max Munday, 2018. "New directions in regional innovation policy: a network model for generating entrepreneurship and economic development," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(9), pages 1294-1304, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:52:y:2018:i:9:p:1294-1304
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1453131
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