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Competencies of Regions and the Role of the National Research
The paper unveils some of the characteristics of Canadian clusters created by spillovers generated by knowledge-intensive industries. The paper also strives to develop the concept of regions as a nexus of competence, a notion that has already been put forward for firms, but that deserves to be extended to regions within nations and, ultimately, to nations as well.
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http://www.utoronto.ca/isrn/documents/niosi99.pdf