Firm age and innovation

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1019-1047

  Balasubramanian, Natarajan ^a   Lee, Jeongsik ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; INNOVATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 54749111124     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtn028     Document Type: Article

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