Models of innovation: Startups and mature corporations

California Management Review

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Freeman, John ^a   Engel, Jerome S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 36749077460     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41166418     Document Type: Review

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