Assessing and rationalizing the management of a portfolio of clean technologies: Experience from a French environmental fund and a World Bank Cleaner Production demonstration project in China

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-117

  Peltier, Nicolas Pierre ^a   Ashford, Nicholas A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleaner production; Environmental policies assessment; Innovation; Technological management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031639589     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0959-6526(97)00067-x     Document Type: Article

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