Evidence on how academics manage their portfolio of knowledge transfer activities

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1387-1403

  Landry, Réjean ^a   Saïhi, Malek ^b   Amara, Nabil ^a   Ouimet, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Academic activity; Complementarities; Knowledge transfer; Multivariate path model; Substitution

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES; COMPLEMENTARITIES; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; PATH MODELS; SUBSTITUTION;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78149470828     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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