Intangible infrastructures and development: the networks of business support services

Nicola Bellini

L'industria, 2008, issue 1, 191-206

Abstract: This paper critically reviews the possible analytical approaches to business support policies. Within the general framework of industrial policies, one may identify a set of policies specifically aiming at assisting enterprises or entrepreneurs to develop their businesses successfully and to respond effectively to the challenges of their business, social and physical environment. In this paper next paragraphs we analyze the meaning and implications of a policy that is implemented through service activities. Three main approaches are discussed, based on different research paradigms. Contributions deriving from industrial and regional economics, policy analysis, and management and marketing research are compared also in the light of the evidence derived from the evaluation practice.

Keywords: Industrial Policy; Business Support Services; Economic Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1430/27281 (application/pdf)
https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1430/27281 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mul:j0hje1:doi:10.1430/27281:y:2008:i:1:p:191-206

Access Statistics for this article

L'industria is currently edited by Patrizio Bianchi

More articles in L'industria from Società editrice il Mulino
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().