Creativity and diversity: Strategic performance management of high-tech SMEs in Dutch Urban Areas

Advances in Spatial Science

Volumn 68, Issue , 2011, Pages 143-176

  Kourtit, Karima ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85020100698     PISSN: 14309602     EISSN: 21979375     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17940-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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