How relational dimensions affect knowledge redundancy in industrial clusters

European Planning Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1975-1992

  Expósito Langa, Manuel ^a   Molina Morales, F Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; KNOWLEDGE; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

SPAIN;

EID: 78649489011     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2010.515817     Document Type: Article

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