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Fostering Regional Strategic Industries with Reference to Daejeon Metropolitan City

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Growth in national and/or regional economies comes with investment, supported by the adoption, and generation of new technology. As productivity of land, labor, and capital increases, the economic competitiveness of a city, region, and nation is enhanced. The key dynamic is the continuing sequence of the application of new technologies in both products and processes.

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Kang, BJ. (2014). Fostering Regional Strategic Industries with Reference to Daejeon Metropolitan City. In: Oh, DS., Phillips, F. (eds) Technopolis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5508-9_15

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