Regional competitiveness: from endowments to externalities to evolution

Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 234-245

  Martin, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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