External spillovers, internal spillovers and the geography of production and innovation

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 679-696

  Gersbach, Hans ^a   Schmutzler, Armin ^b  

^a Alfred Weber Institut   (Germany)

^b Sozialökonomisches Seminar ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Economic geography; Intrafirm communication; R and D; Technological spillovers

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 0032740802     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0462(99)00026-5     Document Type: Article

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