With or without clusters: Facilitating innovation through a differentiated and combined network approach

European Planning Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1169-1188

  Visser, Evert Jan ^a   Atzema, Oedzge ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC PLANNING; ECONOMIC POLICY; INNOVATION; POLICY STRATEGY; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 56349114088     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310802401573     Document Type: Article

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