Information age Ireland: The attraction, the reality and never ending geography

European Planning Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-86

  Collins, Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EUROPEAN UNION; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845537224     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310601016614     Document Type: Article

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