Leveraging knowledge across geographic boundaries

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 252-260

  Tallman, Stephen ^a   Phene, Anupama ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Knowledge flows; Regional clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247492885     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0227     Document Type: Article

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