An evolutionary approach to localized learning and spatial clustering

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 391-405

  Malmberg, Anders ^a   Maskell, Peter ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

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