The role of mid-range universities in knowledge transfer in non-metropolitan regions in Central Eastern Europe

European Planning Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1669-1690

  Gál, Zoltán ^a   Ptaček, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

CZECH REPUBLIC; HUNGARY;

EID: 80053318834     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.586186     Document Type: Article

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