Organisational frameworks for listening post activities

International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 241-265

  Gassmann, Oliver ^a   Gaso, Berislav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

absorptive capacity; external knowledge sourcing and transfer; international R D; listening posts; multiplicative capacity; organisation; technical intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 64149093118     PISSN: 17402832     EISSN: 17402840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2005.007041     Document Type: Article

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