Multinational Enterprises and the Geographical Clustering of Innovation

Industry and Innovation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-21

  Mudambi, Ram ^a   Swift, Tim ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic geography; innovation; knowledge spillovers; Technological clusters

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84857081910     PISSN: 13662716     EISSN: 14698390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2012.649058     Document Type: Article

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