The role of KIBS in the IC development of regional clusters

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 159-170

  Smedlund, Anssi ^a   Toivonen, Marja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Intellectual capital; Knowledge management; Knowledge organizations; Networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845904455     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14691930710715114     Document Type: Article

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