Some notes on institutions in evolutionary economic geography

Economic Geography

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-158

  Boschma, Ron ^a   Frenken, Koen ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolutionary economic geography; Innovation system power; Institutions routines

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; INNOVATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 72749089629     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01018.x     Document Type: Article

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