Diversification and hybridization in firm knowledge bases in nanotechnologies

Research Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 864-870

  Avenel, E ^a   Favier, A V ^a   Ma, S ^a   Mangematin, V ^a   Rieu, C ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Converging technologies; Diversity; Firm knowledge base; Hybridization; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES; DEGREE OF CONVERGENCE; FIRM KNOWLEDGE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34250173822     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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