The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-307

  Boschma, Ron ^a   Frenken, Koen ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clusters; Evolutionary economic geography; Institutions; Regional branching; Related variety

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC THEORY; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79951537208     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbq053     Document Type: Article

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