The emergence of a knowledge-based view of clusters and its implications for cluster governance

Information Society

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 304-318

  Bahlmann, Marc D ^a   Huysman, Marleen H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clusters; ICT; Knowledge based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 53049088163     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240802356075     Document Type: Article

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