Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: Networks of learning in biotechnology

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 116-145

  Powell, Walter W ^a   Koput, Kenneth W ^b   Smith Doerr, Laurel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030306449     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393988     Document Type: Article

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