Emerging innovative networks and milieux: The case of the furniture industry in the Lahti region of Finland

European Planning Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 439-456

  Kautonen, Mika ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; FURNITURE INDUSTRY; INNOVATION DIFFUSION; INNOVATIVE NETWORK; NETWORK DEVELOPMENT;

FINLAND, LAHTI;

EID: 0030477641     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654319608720357     Document Type: Article

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