When the Oryx takes off: Doha a new rising knowledge hub in the gulf region?

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-82

  Conventz, Sven ^a   Thierstein, Alain ^a   Wiedmann, Florian ^b   Salama, Ashraf M ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRANKFURT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced producer services; APSs; Doha; Economic geography; Gulf; High technology; Interlocking network analysis; Knowledge economy; Qatar; Space syntax; Urban development; Urban hierarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929619530     PISSN: 20404468     EISSN: 20404476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJKBD.2015.069443     Document Type: Article

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