Industrial development policies and performances in Southern China: Beyond the specialised industrial cluster program

China Economic Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 613-625

  Barbieri, Elisa ^a   Di Tommaso, Marco R ^a   Bonnini, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

China; Guangdong; Industrial clusters; Industrial development policies; Industrial performance; Innovation; Policy evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865350040     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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