Institutional complementarity and inventive performance in nano science and technology

Research Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 813-831

  Bonaccorsi, Andrea ^a   Thoma, Grid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emerging field; Inventive productivity; Nanotechnology; Patent quality; Science technology relation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CURRICULA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EMERGING FIELD; INVENTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NST);

NANOSCIENCE;

EID: 34250188107     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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