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An Interpretative Survey of Innovative Behaviour and Diffusion

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“Made in Taiwan”. The Western world has witnessed an avalanche of consumer goods produced in the Asian Pacific Rim which have flooded the markets in countries which used to have a strong industrial base. A world wide process of industrial restructuring has taken place, leading to a shift of the industrial heartland to traditionally remote areas. At the same time, the pattern of international trade and the geographical distribution of goods and information has gone through a drastic change.

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Bertuglia, C.S., Lombardo, S., Nijkamp, P. (1997). An Interpretative Survey of Innovative Behaviour and Diffusion. In: Bertuglia, C.S., Lombardo, S., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Innovative Behaviour in Space and Time. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60720-2_1

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