Knowledge-Intensive Firms, Communities, and Creative Cities

Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cohendet, Patrick ^a,b   Simon, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Communities of knowing; Creative city; Creative slack; Management of creation; Project led firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920074991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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