Testing a model of exploration and exploitation as innovation strategies

Small Business Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 257-272

  Fauchart, Emmanuelle ^a   Keilbach, Max ^b  

^a Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Firm demography; Firm size distribution; Industrial dynamics; Innovation strategies; Market concentration; Rank order turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350620838     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9101-6     Document Type: Article

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