Regional clusters in a global industry: ICT clusters in Canada

European Planning Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-209

  Lucas, Matthew ^a   Sands, Anita ^a   Wolfe, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 59449091151     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310802553415     Document Type: Article

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