Urban and regional high technologies: The case of Oulu

Local Economy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 134-149

  Donnelly, Tom ^a   Hyry, Martti ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anchor firms; High technology; Higher education; Networking; Path dependency; Regional policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042514983     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269094042000203054     Document Type: Review

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