Regions, absorptive capacity and strategic coupling with high-tech TNCs: Lessons from India and China

Science, Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-66

  Vang, Jan ^a,b   Asheim, Bjørn ^c  

^a Media and Information technologies   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33744928412     PISSN: 09717218     EISSN: 09730796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097172180501100103     Document Type: Article

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