Locked in decline? On the role of regional lock-ins in old industrial areas

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 450-470

  Hassink, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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