Science Parks and the growth of new technology-based firms - Academic-industry links, innovation and markets

Research Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 859-876

  Löfsten, Hans ^a   Lindelöf, Peter ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Growth; Innovation; Links; New technology based firms; Policy; Science parks

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244435606     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(01)00153-6     Document Type: Article

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