Creative clusters in berlin: Entrepreneurship and the quality of place in prenzlauer berg and kreuzberg

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 347-363

  Heebels, Barbara ^a   Van Aalst, Irina ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Creative industries; Entrepreneurship; Kreuzberg; Local networks; Prenzlauer Berg; Symbolic value

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENTREPRENEUR; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLITICS;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 78650525195     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2010.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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