Technological scope: Diversified or specialized

Scientometrics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-58

  Chiu, Yi Chia ^a   Lai, Hsien Che ^b   Liaw, Yi Ching ^a   Lee, Tai Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Technological diversification; Technological scope; Technological specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 75549086247     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0039-5     Document Type: Article

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