Emergence of regional clusters: The role of spinoffs in the early growth process

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 205-220

  Dahl, Michael S ^a   Østergaard, Christian R ^a   Dalum, Bent ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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