Quebec's Coastal Maritime Industrial Cluster: (Not) Innovative and (Locally) Embedded?

Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 325-344

  Doloreux, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 84907596378     PISSN: 08276331     EISSN: 21692610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2008.10593428     Document Type: Article

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