Opening up the 'Jacobs spillovers' black box: Local diversity, creativity and the processes underlying new combinations

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 843-863

  Desrochers, Pierre ^a   Leppälä, Samuli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Creativity; Jane Jacobs; Knowledge spillovers; Local diversity

Indexed keywords

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951531709     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbq028     Document Type: Article

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