Exploring new combinations in innovation and entrepreneurship: Social networks, schumpeter, and the case of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795)

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1119-1151

  Dodgson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79960713113     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr021     Document Type: Article

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