Entrepreneurship, knowledge, space, and place: Evolutionary economic geography meets Austrian economics

Advances in Austrian Economics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 81-103

  Stam, Erik ^a   Lambooy, Jan ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84896906246     PISSN: 15292134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1529-2134(2012)0000016007     Document Type: Article

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