Pittsburgh's evolving steel legacy and the steel technology cluster

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-120

  Treado, Carey Durkin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; Path dependence; Regional resilience; Steel technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950543229     PISSN: 17521378     EISSN: 17521386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsp027     Document Type: Article

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