Divide to conquer? The Silicon Valley - Boston 128 case revisited
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Keywords
Clusters; Adjustment; N/K model; Simulation; Decentralisation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2007-01-13 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-INO-2007-01-13 (Innovation)
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