The elusive concept of localization economies: Towards a knowledge-based theory of spatial clustering

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 429-449

  Malmberg, Anders ^a   Maskell, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION DECISION; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 0036206062     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3457     Document Type: Article

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