Is distance dead? High-tech clusters, analysis and policy perspectives

Clusters and Globalisation: The Development of Urban and Regional Economies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 281-308

  Di Tommaso, Marco R ^a   Paci, Daniele ^a   Rubini, Lauretta ^a   Schweitzer, Stuart O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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