Highly innovative small technology firms, industrial clusters and firm internationalization

Research Policy

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1426-1437

  Libaers, Dirk ^a   Meyer, Martin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Density dependence theory; Industrial clustering; Internationalization; RBV; Serial and non serial innovator firms

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERING; INTERNATIONALIZATION; RBV; SERIAL AND NON-SERIAL INNOVATOR FIRMS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INNOVATION; PUBLIC POLICY; TECHNOLOGY;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 80255133203     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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