Strategic organization of R&D: The choice of basicness and openness

Strategic Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-73

  Cassiman, Bruno ^a,b,c   Valentini, Giovanni ^d  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c IESE Business School ^*  (Spain)

^d BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Commitment; Innovation; Open innovation; Organization of R D; R D; R D strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549094795     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127008100129     Document Type: Article

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