The role of a network organization and Internet-based technologies in clusters: The case of Medicon Valley

Innovation and the Creative Process: Towards Innovation with Care

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 193-211

  Scupola, Ada ^a   Steinfield, Charles ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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