Complementary Innovations And Generative Relationships: An Ethnographic Study

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 517-558

  Russo, Marghertta ^a   Hughes, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic complementaities; Generative relationships; Innovation dynamics; Local production systems; Patents

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347536507     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438590000000021     Document Type: Article

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