The impact of regional absorptive capacity on spatial knowledge spillovers: The Cohen and Levinthal model revisited

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1363-1374

  Caragliu, Andrea ^a,b   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 80051682936     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.539549     Document Type: Article

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