Science-driven vs. market-pioneering high tech: Comparative German technology sectors in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 251-278

  Lehrer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; WORLD;

EID: 17744397392     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dth052     Document Type: Review

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