Technology mining for small firms: Knowledge prospecting for competitive advantage

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 937-949

  Courseault Trumbach, Cherie ^a   Payne, Dinah ^a   Kongthon, Alisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

Author keywords

High tech; Information flow; Innovation; Small business; SME; Technology mining

Indexed keywords

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

HIGH TECH SMALL FIRMS; TECHNOLOGY MINING;

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE;

COMPETITIVENESS; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 33748051524     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2006.05.018     Document Type: Article

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