Collaborative knowledge production in China: Regional evidence from a gravity model approach

Regional Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 755-772

  Scherngell, Thomas ^a   Hu, Yuanjia ^b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b University of Macau   (Macao)

Author keywords

Chinese regions; Co publications; Collaborative knowledge production; Negative binomial regional gravity model

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 78650294899     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343401003713373     Document Type: Article

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