Principles and practices of knowledge creation: On the organization of "buzz" and "pipelines" in life science communities

Economic Geography

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-469

  Moodysson, Jerker ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Embeddedness; Innovation; Medicon Valley; Proximity

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 58149472605     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2008.00004.x     Document Type: Article

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