Knowledge interaction with manufacturing clients and innovation of knowledge-intensive business services firms

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 264-278

  He, Zi Lin ^a   Wong, Poh Kam ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Human capital; Innovation; Knowledge interaction; Knowledge intensive business services; R D; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952766183     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.11.3.264     Document Type: Article

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