Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between collaborative governance arrangements for place-based competitiveness and public innovation. Design/methodology/approach: The paper combines a conceptual discussion of the links between collaborative governance, competitiveness...

We develop improved methods for modeling and simulating the streams of patients arriving at a community clinic. In previous practice, random (unscheduled) patient arrivals were often assumed to follow an ordinary Poisson process (so the corresponding patient interarrival times were randomly...

Across the world academic institutions are being questioned by their stakeholders and pressured to change. Answering these questions requires that academics and professional managers in universities think about their work, its value and organisation. The book highlights the need for space and...

<title>Abstract</title> Analysis of the recent financial crisis has tended to focus upon “market” and corresponding “regulatory” failures. While this provides important insights, it may neglect deeper issues at the root of recent problems. In this paper, we take a broader perspective, drawing upon the...

A<sc>ranguren</sc> M. J., <sc>de la</sc> M<sc>aza</sc> X., P<sc>arrilli</sc> M. D., V<sc>endrell</sc>-H<sc>errero</sc> F. and W<sc>ilson</sc> J. R. Nested methodological approaches for cluster policy evaluation: an application to the Basque Country, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper explores the evaluation of cluster policies designed to support cooperation and...