Barriers to the use of patent information in UK small and medium-sized enterprises. Part I: Questionnaire survey

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 335-350

  Hall, Matthew ^a   Oppenheim, Charles ^c   Sheen, Margaret ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

PETENT INFORMATION;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 0032641285     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555159902500501     Document Type: Article

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