Relational distance: Sociocultural and time-spatial tensions in innovation practices

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 187-204

  Ibert, Oliver ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIETY AND SPACE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEURISTICS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 74349107040     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4247     Document Type: Article

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