Radical or not? Assessing innovativeness and its organisational implications for established firms

International Journal of Product Development

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 152-166

  Bröring, Stefanie ^a   Leker, Jens ^a   Rühmer, Saskia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate venturing; Functional food; Innovativeness; Nanotechnology; R D networks; System solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747364459     PISSN: 14779056     EISSN: 17418178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPD.2006.009363     Document Type: Article

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