Knowledge, complexity and networks*

Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 141-180

  Saviotti, Pier Paolo ^a  

^a INRA University Pierre Mendes France   (France)

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EID: 84881901954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857930378.00013     Document Type: Chapter

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