The circulation of ideas in firms and markets

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1813-1826

  Hellmann, Thomas ^a   Perotti, Enrico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Innovation; Market for ideas; Spin offs; Start ups

Indexed keywords

IDEA GENERATION; INNOVATIVE FIRMS; MARKET FOR IDEAS; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; PAPER MODELS; SILICON VALLEY; SPIN OFF; SPIN-OFFS; START-UPS; SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP;

COMMERCE;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 80054031526     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1385     Document Type: Article

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