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This book focuses on the issue of strategic musts – i.e. the most important strategic guiding lines – of innovation networks and networks in general and their possible implementation.

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This book outlines by means of the idea of a learning region a pro-active discussion of the processes of change. For the first time the idea of a learning region is comprehensively presented. Because of the look from a business management point of view, it gives impulses for a new understanding of the development of regions.