Promoting innovative clusters and cooperation networks: The European Commission observatories of SMEs and the context of Berlin-Brandenburg

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 204-223

  Seliger, Günther ^a,c   Carpinetti, Luiz César Ribeiro ^b   Gerolamo, Mateus Cecílio ^a,b   Fleschutz, Timo ^a,d,e  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c TU Berlin ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Berlin brandenburg; Clusters; Competence networks; Cooperation networks; European union; Germany; Innovation; Kompetenznetze.de; Small And medium sized enterprises; SMEs

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

COMPETENCE NETWORKS; COOPERATION NETWORKS; SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES (SME);

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38849130150     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2008.017011     Document Type: Article

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