US manufacturing extension partnerships: Technology policy reinvented?

Research Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 977-992

  Shapira, Philip ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing extension; Partnerships; Technology policy; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035369587     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00168-2     Document Type: Article

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