The technological origins of radical inventions

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1051-1059

  Schoenmakers, Wilfred ^a,b,c   Duysters, Geert ^a,d  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alliances; Open innovation; Organizational learning; Patents; Radical inventions

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; HIGHER-DEGREE; KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS; OPEN INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; RADICAL INVENTIONS; SPECIFIC NATURE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 77955414831     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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