Innovation in services - How different from manufacturing?

Service Industries Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1339-1356

  Pires, Cesaltina Pacheco ^a   Sarkar, Soumodip ^a   Carvalho, Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Process innovation; Product innovation; Services

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; LEARNING; MANUFACTURING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 57649149769     PISSN: 02642069     EISSN: 17439507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02642060802317812     Document Type: Article

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