Path dependence and diversification in corporate technological histories

New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. David

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 118-157

  Cantwell, John ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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