Exploring larger biotech research firm strategies: Projections from a comparison of small and larger firms

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 173-184

  McCutchen Jr , William W ^a   Swamidass, Paul M ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 0029749613     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1625(95)00250-2     Document Type: Article

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