The initiation and evolution of interfirm knowledge transfer in R and D relationships

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1699-1728

  Faems, Dries ^a   Janssens, Maddy ^a   Van Looy, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Interfirm knowledge transfer; R and D relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648968206     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606082222     Document Type: Article

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