Characteristics of technical visionaries as perceived by American and British industrial physicists

R and D Management

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-26

  Vojak, Bruce A ^a   Griffin, Abbie ^b   Price, Raymond L ^a   Perlov, Konstantin ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 33645050915     PISSN: 00336807     EISSN: 14679310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9310.2005.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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