Ideas for rent: An overview of markets for technology

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 775-803

  Arora, Ashish ^a   Gambardella, Alfonso ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

EID: 77955748790     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq022     Document Type: Article

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