Benchmarking of quality and maturity of innovation activities in a networked environment

International Journal of Technology Management

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 255-278

  Berg, Pekk ^a,b   Pihlajamaa, Jussi ^a   Poskela, Jarno ^a,c   Smedlund, Anssi ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Innovation Management Institute   (Finland)

^c COINNO Project ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Collaboration; Innovation quality; Method QMM; Quality maturity; R D; Strategic networks

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COLLABORATION; INNOVATION QUALITY; METHOD QMM; QUALITY MATURITY; STRATEGIC NETWORKS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 31344453831     PISSN: 02675730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijtm.2006.008314     Document Type: Article

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