Creative industries, creative class and competitiveness: Expert opinions critically appraised

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 843-852

  Bontje, Marco ^a   Musterd, Sako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

City regions; Competitiveness; Creativity; Europe; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

CLASS; COGNITION; COMPETITIVENESS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70350759821     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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