Cluster emergence: combining pre-existing conditions and triggering factors

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 28, Issue 9-10, 2016, Pages 704-723

  Isaksen, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

boatbuilding industry; cluster emergence; entrepreneurship; knowledge bases; Oslo Cancer Cluster; Regional cluster; triggering factors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY;

NORWAY; OSLO [NORWAY]; OSLO [OSLO (CNT)];

EID: 84990221358     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2016.1239762     Document Type: Article

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