University decentralization as regional policy: the Swedish experiment
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University decentralization as regional policy: the Swedish experiment
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Geography
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1468-2702,1468-2710
DOI: 10.1093/jnlecg/lbh031