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Corporate Governance of Cluster Development Agencies: The Case for Market Orientation

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There are local communities that nowadays are in better shape than they had ever been in generations. Unprecedented economic development has not been inspired by government intervention, but by the simple fact that they have been growing organically.

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  1. International University of Entrepreneurship Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Piero Formica (Dean, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics)

  2. Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Piero Formica (Dean, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics)

  3. Post-graduate School of Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy

    Piero Formica (Dean, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics)

  4. University of Tartu, Estonia

    Piero Formica (Dean, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics)

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  1. Institute for Regional Research, Kiel University, Olshausenstraße 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany

    Johannes Bröcker

  2. Regional Economics Department, Kiel Institute for World Economics, Düsternbrooker Weg 120, 24105, Kiel, Germany

    Dirk Dohse  & Rüdiger Soltwedel  & 

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Formica, P. (2003). Corporate Governance of Cluster Development Agencies: The Case for Market Orientation. In: Bröcker, J., Dohse, D., Soltwedel, R. (eds) Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24760-9_12

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