New information and communication technologies and local clustering of firms: A case study of the xingwang industrial park in beijing

Urban Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 390-407

  Liu, Weidong ^a   Dicken, Peter ^b   Yeung, Henry W C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Local industrial cluster; New information and communication technologies; Telecommunications industry; Xingwang Industrial Park

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; BEIJING; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 8744240611     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.25.4.390     Document Type: Article

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