The regional environment and a firm's innovative performance: A plea for a multilevel interactionist approach

Economic Geography

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-199

  Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Firm; Innovation; Region

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 34249982042     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00342.x     Document Type: Article

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