Learning-by-producing and the geographic links between invention and production: Experience from the second industrial revolution

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 992-1025

  Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LEARNING;

EID: 33947580803     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050706000404     Document Type: Article

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