The role of civic capital and civic associations in cluster policy

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters: Cases and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 374-392

  Wolfe, David A ^a   Nelles, Jen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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