Localized Spillovers and Knowledge Flows: How Does Proximity Influence the Performance of Plants?

Economic Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-152

  Eriksson, Rikard H ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agglomeration economies; Geographic proximity; Knowledge spillovers; Labor mobility; Plant performance; Related variety

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LABOR MOBILITY; NATIONAL ECONOMY; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

SWEDEN;

EID: 79952788638     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01112.x     Document Type: Article

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