Knowledge intermediaries or routine service producers? Exploring finnish M-KIBS using the innovation system approach

Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Geography and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 123-144

  Kautonen, Mika ^a   Hyypia, Marja ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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