Imported Expertise in World-class Knowledge Infrastructures: The Problematic Development of Knowledge Cities in the Gulf Region |
Kosior, Adriana
(Dept. of Information Science Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf)
Barth, Julia (Dept. of Information Science Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf) Gremm, Julia (Dept. of Information Science Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf) Mainka, Agnes (Dept. of Information Science Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf) Stock, Wolfgang G. (Dept. of Information Science Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf) |
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