Knowledge search and strategic alliance: Evidence from the electronics industry

Innovation Networks in Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 105-124

  Breschi, Stefano ^a   Cassi, Lorenzo ^b   Malerba, Franco ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

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