From branch plant economies to knowledge economies? Manufacturing industry, government policy, and economic development in Britain's old industrial regions

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 574-592

  Phelps, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNMENT; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; MANUFACTURING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350628623     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0870b     Document Type: Conference Paper

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