Toward a reconceptualization of regional development paths: Is Leipzig's media cluster a continuation of or a rupture with the past?

Economic Geography

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 265-293

  Bathelt, Harald ^a   Boggs, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Book publishing; Leipzig; Regional development path; Regional ruptures; Television film production

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; MEDIA INDUSTRY; PUBLISHING; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; TELEVISION;

GERMANY; LEIPZIG; SAXONY;

EID: 0042197507     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2003.tb00212.x     Document Type: Article

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