Economic performance, inter-firm relations and local institutional engineering in a computational prototype of industrial districts

JASSS

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Squazzoni, Flaminio ^a   Boero, Riccardo ^a  

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Author keywords

Agent Based Computational Model; Industrial Districts; Local Institutional Engineering; Technological Change

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EID: 2942622146     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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