Pathways toward european creative-knowledge city-regions

Urban Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-104

  Bontje, Marco ^a   Musterd, Sako ^a   Kovács, Zoltan ^b   Murie, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

city regions; creative industries; Europe; knowledge intensive industries; path dependence

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN GROWTH;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; BUDAPEST; ENGLAND; HUNGARY; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650866460     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32.1.80     Document Type: Article

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