How Emergence Conditions of Technological Clusters Affect Their Viability? Theoretical Perspectives on Cluster Life Cycles

European Planning Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2025-2046

  Crespo, Joan ^a  

^a École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84858983271     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.633824     Document Type: Article

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