University-industry collaboration: The network embeddedness approach

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 158-168

  Thune, Taran ^a  

^a WORK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EID: 34548214186     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/030234207X206902     Document Type: Article

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