Strong growth in weakly-developed networks: Producer-user interaction and knowledge brokers in the Greater Shanghai chemical industry

Applied Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 158-170

  Bathelt, Harald ^a   Zeng, Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical industry; Knowledge brokers; Producer user interaction; Shanghai; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FINANCIAL CRISIS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INNOVATION; LABOR DIVISION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 79960166000     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.11.015     Document Type: Article

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