Path dependence and path plasticity: The co-evolution of institutions and innovation-the German customized business software industry

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 406-431

  Strambach, Simone ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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