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GENERAL PAPERS

The Metropolization and Regionalization of the Knowledge Economy in the Multi-Core Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region

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Pages 2542-2560 | Received 18 Dec 2012, Accepted 11 Sep 2013, Published online: 31 Jan 2014

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