Network Structures in Regional Innovation Systems

European Planning Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 423-442

  Stuck, Jérôme ^a   Broekel, Tom ^a   Revilla Diez, Javier ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

network analysis; regional innovation system; RIS; SNA

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84955382810     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2015.1074984     Document Type: Article

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