Training and enterprise councils as facilitators of a networked approach to local economic development: forms, mechanisms, and existing interpretations

Huggins, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9798-8614 1997. Training and enterprise councils as facilitators of a networked approach to local economic development: forms, mechanisms, and existing interpretations. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 15 (3) , pp. 273-284. 10.1068/c150273

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Abstract

The author reviews and examines the relevant literature concerning the role that networks have played in the local economic development activities of Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs). The analysis focuses on TECs as actors within, and catalysts of, networks -- specifically at the local level. TEC mechanisms for economic development and the forms of TEC-facilitated networks are considered, and it is argued that a networking approach has gradually permeated TEC strategies both as a specific policy tool and as an instrument for improving the effectiveness of other support initiatives and programmes. The author finds the existence of a dichotomy between the relatively positive finds of Government-sponsored evaluations of TECs and those of more critical academic studies.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Additional Information:	Robert Huggins, 1997. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and Planning C, 15, 3, 273-284, 1997, 10.1068/c150273
ISSN:	0263-774X
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/29308

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