Growing Silicon Valley on a landscape: An agent-based approach to high-tech industrial clusters

Entrepreneurship, the New Economy and Public Policy: Schumpeterian Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 71-90

  Zhang, Junfu ^a  

^a PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Industiral clusters; Silicon Valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861823575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26994-0_6     Document Type: Chapter

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