Success factors of interorganisational knowledge transfer: A case of a collaborative public private R&D project

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-125

  Salmi, Pekka ^a   Torkkeli, Marko ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Academic research; Engineering consulting; Innovation process; Knowledge transfer; Public private collaboration; R D

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549087145     PISSN: 17510252     EISSN: 17510260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2009.022750     Document Type: Article

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