Barriers to innovation for SMEs in a small less developed country (Cyprus)

Technovation

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 561-570

  Hadjimanolis, Athanasios ^a  

^a NONE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL; SURVEYS;

CYPRUS; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; INNOVATION; MEDIUM FIRMS; SMALL FIRMS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0032669294     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4972(99)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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