Breadth-of-impact frontier: How firm-level decisions and selection environment dynamics generate boundary-spanning inventions

Technovation

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 411-419

  Banerjee, Preeta M ^a   Cole, Benjamin M ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Breadth of impact; Patents; Selection environment

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS; ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRMS; ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS; KNOWLEDGE EXPLORATION; NEW APPLICATIONS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; FUZZY CONTROL;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 77955305553     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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