Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective (II) - Knowledge creation and growth in clusters

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 204-216

  Bathelt, Harald ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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ECONOMIC GROWTH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 19044385821     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0309132505ph539pr     Document Type: Review

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