Scientific Mobility and Knowledge Transfer at the Interregional and Intraregional Level

Regional Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1653-1667

  Trippl, Michaela ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Interregional and intraregional knowledge transfer; Scientific mobility; Star scientists

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; MOBILITY; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84887864855     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2010.549119     Document Type: Article

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