The aims and scope of evolutionary economic geography

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-42

  Boschma, Ron ^a   Martin, Ron ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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