Knowledge-based clusters: Regional multiplier models and the role of 'buzz' and 'pipelines'

Handbook of Research on Cluster Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 78-92

  Bathelt, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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