Innovation and network structural dynamics: Study of the alliance network of a major sector of the biotechnology industry

Research Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1457-1475

  Gay, Brigitte ^a   Dousset, Bernard ^b  

^a École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole   (France)

^b IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Alliances; Innovation; Network dynamics; Scale free; Small world

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

ALLIANCES; INNOVATION; NETWORK DYNAMICS; SCALE FREE; SMALL WORLD;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 28044472798     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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