Success and failure of firms' innovation co-operations: The role of intermediaries and reciprocity

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-329

  Cantner, Uwe ^a,b   Meder, Andreas ^c   Wolf, Tina ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Innovation co operation; Intermediation; Reciprocity; Trust

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

FRANCE; GERMANY;

EID: 79958081098     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2011.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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