Beyond the Learning Region: A New Direction for Conceptualizing the Relation between Space and Learning

European Planning Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 722-734

  Rutten, Roel ^a   Boekema, Frans ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INNOVATION; LEARNING; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878132922     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2013.733505     Document Type: Article

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