Are there really high-tech clusters? The geographic concentration of German manufacturing industries and its determinants

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-42

  Alecke, Björn ^a   Alsleben, Christoph ^b   Scharr, Frank ^a   Untiedt, Gerhard ^a  

^a GEFRA Gesellschaft für Finanz und Regionalanalysen ^*  (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33645219879     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-005-0014-x     Document Type: Article

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