An emerging biomedical business in a low capitalised country

European Planning Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 943-960

  Raagmaa, Garri ^a   Tamm, Priit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

BALTIC STATES; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; TARTU; WORLD;

EID: 10344263420     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0965431042000267849     Document Type: Article

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