Industrial Innovation Collaboration in a Capital Region Context

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 507-532

  Herstad, Sverre ^a   Pålshaugen, Øyvind ^b   Ebersberger, Bernd ^c  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

^b WORK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c MANAGEMENT CENTER INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capital region; Innovation collaboration; Oslo; Urbanization economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873242597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18687873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13132-011-0065-4     Document Type: Article

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