Absorptive capacity for R&D: Theidentification of different firm profiles

European Planning Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1267-1283

  Rodríguez Castellanos, Arturo ^a   Hagemeister, Markus ^b   Ranguelov, Stanislav ^a  

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

^b Commites ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; INNOVATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

BASQUE COUNTRY; SPAIN; VIZCAYA;

EID: 77954631728     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654311003791317     Document Type: Article

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