The recent evolution of canadian inventive enterprises

Professional Geographer

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 64-76

  Ceh, S L Brian ^a,b,c  

^a BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Foreign owned; Industry; Invention; Patent; Periphery; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943054709     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00057     Document Type: Article

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