Business Networking for SMEs as a Means to Promote Regional Competitiveness: A Theoretical Framework
The paper addresses the advantages of networking and its contribution to regional development as a way of promoting competitiveness. In so doing it will analyse the factors that lead entrepreneurs to co-operate and apply these findings in the context of regional and national economic development.
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