Spaces of Innovation: Learning, Proximity and the Ecological Turn

Regional Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1041-1053

  Healy, Adrian ^a   Morgan, Kevin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation; Learning; Proximities; Regions

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LEARNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866037818     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2012.672725     Document Type: Article

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