Regional social networks as conduits for knowledge spillovers: Explaining performance of high-tech firms

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-197

  Boshuizen, Johannes ^a   Geurts, Peter ^a   Van Der Veen, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agglomerations; Firm performance; Knowledge spillovers; Multi level analysis; Social networks; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349121760     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00528.x     Document Type: Article

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