Commercializing open science: Deep space communications as the lead market for Shannon theory, 1960-73

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1506-1532

  West, Joel ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 56349155712     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00807.x     Document Type: Article

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