Location and collaboration: Manufacturing firms' use of knowledge intensive services in product innovation

European Planning Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 879-898

  Drejer, Ina ^a   Vinding, Anker Lund ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; SERVICE SECTOR;

EID: 23844496101     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310500188407     Document Type: Article

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