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Creativity and Diversity: Strategic Performance Management of High-Tech SMEs in Dutch Urban Areas

In: Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics

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  • Karima Kourtit

    (VU University Amsterdam)

  • Peter Nijkamp

    (VU University Amsterdam)

Abstract

The world of business environments in modern economies and cities has changed dramatically the way of pursuing business (Spence 2004), and depends nowadays heavily on the performance in generating and utilizing new knowledge, imagination, creativity, innovations and technologies. This holds even more so in the high technology industry which is usually characterized by an extremely volatile, dynamic and uncertain business climate.

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  • Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp, 2011. "Creativity and Diversity: Strategic Performance Management of High-Tech SMEs in Dutch Urban Areas," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp & Roger R. Stough (ed.), Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics, pages 143-176, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-17940-2_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17940-2_8
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    1. Karima Kourtit & Daniel Arribas-Bel & Peter Nijkamp, 2013. "High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 13-194/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.
    2. Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp, 2013. "In Search Of Creative Champions In High-Tech Spaces: A Spatial Application Of Strategic Performance Management," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(5), pages 749-777, December.
    3. Karima Kourtit & Daniel Arribas-Bel & Peter Nijkamp, 2012. "High performers in complex spatial systems: a self-organizing mapping approach with reference to The Netherlands," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 48(2), pages 501-527, April.

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