Local or digital buzz, global or national pipelines: Patterns of knowledge sourcing in intelligent machinery and digital content services in Finland

European Planning Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1305-1330

  Sotarauta, Markku ^a   Ramstedt Sen, Tiina ^a   Seppänen, Sanna Kaisa ^a   Kosonen, Kati Jasmin ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; METROPOLITAN AREA;

FINLAND;

EID: 79961033362     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.573139     Document Type: Article

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