Knowledge-intensive business services users and uses: Exploring the propensity to innovation related cooperation with knowledge-intensive business services

Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Geography and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 75-98

  Freel, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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