Chapter 16: Absorptive Capacity in a Regional Context
Maria Abreu
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31 Aug 2011
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Social And Political Science 2011
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https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857931504.00030
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16 Absorptive capacity in a regional context Maria Abreu INTRODUCTION Absorptive capacity was famously defined by Cohen and Levinthal (1989) as the ability by a firm to ‘identify, assimilate and exploit knowledge from the external environment’ (Co...

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Cover Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Edited by Philip Cooke, Bjørn Asheim, Ron Boschma, Ron Martin, Dafna Schwartz, and Franz Tödtling
Handbook
Published:
31 Aug 2011
Print ISBN:
9781848444171
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9780857931504
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857931504
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648
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2011
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