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Clusters, human capital and economic development in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire

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  • Rupert Waters

    (University of Buckingham)

  • Helen Lawton Smith

    (Department of Management, Birkbeck College University of London)

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Building on previous work (Lawton Smith and Waters, 2011) this paper draws on national datasets to review the continued and different development of the high tech economies of Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

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  • Rupert Waters & Helen Lawton Smith, 2012. "Clusters, human capital and economic development in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire," Working Papers 2, Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research, revised Feb 2012.
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