...Akbar Khodabandehloo Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study how actors in a network for regional development perceive the network by addressing the questions of what characterizes a network for regional development and why the actors participate in such a network. Design/methodology...

..., 2000 ; Sodano, 2001 ; Tregear et al., 2007). This paper is organized as follows: in Section 2 we begin by presenting a brief review of the existing literature on rural and regional development, regional products and capabilities, entrepreneurial initiative and the expected role...