Do firms in clusters innovate more?

Research Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 525-540

  Baptista, Rui ^a   Swann, Peter ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Innovation; Regional patterns; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347873765     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(98)00065-1     Document Type: Article

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