Producer service linkages and industrial innovation: Results of a twelve-year tracking study of New York State manufacturers

Growth and Change

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-23

  Macpherson, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; OUTSOURCING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; TRACKING;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38949189975     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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