Firms' transfer strategies with universities and the relationship with firms' innovation performance

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1067-1106

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a   Woerter, Martin ^a  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 76249129094     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtp029     Document Type: Article

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