Sustaining breakthrough innovation in large established firms: Learning traps and counteracting strategies

Creating Wealth from Knowledge: Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 177-202

  Ferriani, Simone ^a   Garnsey, Elizabeth ^b   Probert, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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