Regional innovation systems in developing countries: Integrating micro and meso-level capabilities

Handbook of Innovation Systems and Developing Countries: Building Domestic Capabilities in a Global Setting

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 140-182

  Padilla pérez, Ramón ^a   Vang, Jan ^b   Chaminade, Cristina ^c  

^a United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)   (Chile)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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