Catching up, leapfrogging, or forging ahead? Exploring the effects of integration and history on spatial technological adoptions

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 930-946

  Giovannetti, Emanuele ^a,b  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic integration; Leapfrogging; Local interaction; Regional asymmetries; Technological adoption

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; CONVERGENCE; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; ECONOMIC PLANNING; INNOVATION; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; REGIONAL ECONOMY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 84876442883     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4572     Document Type: Article

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