Innovation, collaboration and learning in regional clusters: A study of SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Clusters: Cases and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 300-317

  Cumbers, Andrew ^a   MacKinnon, Danny ^b   Chapman, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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