Concepts to products: Lessons learned from industrial success stories

European Journal of Innovation Management

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 370-395

  Jokioinen, Ilkka ^a   Suomala, Petri ^b  

^a METSO PAPER INC   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Industrial performance; Performance criteria; Product development

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749530064     PISSN: 14601060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14601060610707830     Document Type: Article

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