Spatial clustering and the potential for policy practice: Experiences from cluster-building processes in Sweden

European Planning Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 521-532

  Hallencreutz, Daniel ^a   Lundequist, Per ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL POLICY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0041698086     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310303649     Document Type: Article

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