The Great Experiment: Public-Private Partnerships and Innovation in Design, Production, and Operation of Capital Goods in the UK

Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Davies, Andrew ^a   Salter, Ammon ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capital goods; Design; Division of labour; Innovation; Production; Public private partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650293222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199290474.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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