Intellectual capital and knowledge productivity: The Taiwan biotech industry

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 580-599

  Huang, Yi Chun ^a   Wu, Yen Chun Jim ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Human capital; Knowledge creation; Social capital; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951992963     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011041364     Document Type: Article

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