Safeguarding SMEs dynamic capabilities in technology innovative SME-large company partnerships in South Africa

Technovation

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 171-182

  Sawers, Jill L ^a   Pretorius, Marthinus W ^b   Oerlemans, Leon A G ^b,c  

^a UNL IBM Global Innovation Hub   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Competencies; Inter organizational relationships; Knowledge spillover; Opportunism; Safeguards; SME large company partnerships

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVER; SME-LARGE COMPANY PARTNERSHIPS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 40349089770     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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