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Learning regions as development coalitions: Partnership as governance in European workfare states?

Asheim, Björn LU (2001) In Concepts and Transformation 6(1). p.73-101
Abstract
The understanding of post-Fordist societies as learning economies, in which learning organizations such as learning firms and learning regions play a strategic role, has lately received some criticism. The critique has partly pointed at the structural limits to learning in a capitalist global economy, and partly argued that firms in capitalist societies have always been learning, referring especially to the role of innovation in inter-firm competition. Against the critics, it is argued that the learning region has great potential, both as a theoretical and normative concept and as a practical metaphor for formulating regional policy.
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Concepts and Transformation
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1384-6639
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10.1075/cat.6.1.05ash
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