The winner takes it all: forward-looking cities and urban innovation

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 617-645

  Caragliu, Andrea ^a   Del Bo, Chiara F ^b   Kourtit, Karima ^d   Nijkamp, Peter ^c,e  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

R11; R12

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; INNOVATION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84952011442     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-015-0734-5     Document Type: Article

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