Knowledge-based urban development of cross-border twin cities

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 389-406

  Makkonen, Teemu ^a,b   Weidenfeld, Adi ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Border region; Copenhagen; Cross border innovation cooperation; Cross border regional innovation system; Helsinki; Innovation; Integration; KBUD; Knowledge based urban development; Malm ; Oresund; Similarity; Tallinn; Twin city

Indexed keywords

EID: 85005807545     PISSN: 20404468     EISSN: 20404476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJKBD.2016.080881     Document Type: Article

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