On the Link between Urban Location and the Involvement of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Firms in Collaboration Networks

Regional Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1160-1175

  Herstad, Sverre J ^a,b   Ebersberger, Bernd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

^c MANAGEMENT CENTER INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Internationalization; Knowledge intensive business services; Norway; Urban economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929945004     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2013.816413     Document Type: Article

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