Engaging digital services for the creation of urban knowledge ecosystems: The case of Thermi, Greece

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 331-350

  Angelidou, Margarita ^a   Gountaras, Nikolas ^a   Tarani, Paraskevi ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Digital platforms; Digital services; Greece; KC; KE; Knowledge city; Knowledge ecosystem; Spatial intelligence; Thermi; Urban development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870267229     PISSN: 20404468     EISSN: 20404476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJKBD.2012.050090     Document Type: Review

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