Arriving at the Dawn of the New Economy: Is Knowledge-Based Industrial Renewal Possible in a Peripheral Region?

European Planning Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 101-125

  Varis, Miika ^a   Tohmo, Timo ^b   Littunen, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; PERIPHERAL REGION; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

FINLAND; POHJOIS-SAVO;

EID: 84891842579     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.731041     Document Type: Article

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