Inventive Payoff from R&D in Japanese Industry: Convergence with the West?

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 3-9

  Azumi, Koya ^a   Hull, Frank ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING--PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

JAPANESE INDUSTRY; R&D MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0025385898     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: 15580040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.45259     Document Type: Article

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