Localised capabilities and industrial competitiveness

Voices from the North: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 11-28

  Malmberg, Anders ^a   Maskell, Peter ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

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