Does collective learning in clusters contribute to innovation?

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 335-345

  Cotic Svetina, Anja ^a   Jaklic, Marko ^a   Prodan, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; LABOR MARKET; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TECHNOLOGY POLICY; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 47849103184     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/030234208X319357     Document Type: Article

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