Biotechnology foreign direct investment in Singapore

Transnational Corporations

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Pereira, Alexius A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biotechnology foreign direct investment; Biotechnology transnational corporations; Policy competition; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249113557     PISSN: 10149562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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