Inventors are not alike: the distribution of patenting output among industrial R&D personnel

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 184-199

  Ernst, Holger ^a   Leptien, Christopher ^b   Vitt, Jan ^c  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b Spedition Tank ^*  (Germany)

^c TCC the Consulting Company   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INVENTOR; TECHNOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE;

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS;

EID: 0033704037     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.846786     Document Type: Article

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