Organisational capacity to absorb external RD: Industrial differences in assessing intellectual capital drivers

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 102-111

  Hagemeister, Markus ^a   Rodríguez Castellanos, Arturo ^b  

^a Commites Business Development Agency ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision support; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management tools; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952837537     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2010.5     Document Type: Article

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