From islands of innovation to creative hotspots*

Regional Science Policy and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 145-161

  Kourtit, Karima ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^a   Lowik, Steef ^b   van Vught, Frans ^c   Vulto, Paul ^b,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Science Works BV   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d Netherlands Metabolomics Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

C38; clusters; creative hotspots; islands of innovation; L22; O31; Q55; R11; R12; R58; Regional innovation; SWOT analysis; technopolicy network model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857687703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-7802.2011.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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