Learning in districts: Novelty and lock-in in a regional context

European Planning Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 793-808

  Visser, Evert Jan ^a   Boschma, Ron ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; LEARNING;

EID: 5444228184     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0965431042000251864     Document Type: Article

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