The growth and spatial distribution of China's ICT industry: New geography of clustering and innovation

Issues and Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-192

  Wang, Cassandra C ^a   Lin, George C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Industrial clusters; Information and communications technology (ICT) industry; Knowledge spill over; Technological innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 52249088881     PISSN: 10132511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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