Actors' Heterogeneity in Innovation Networks

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 780-789

  Corsaro, Daniela ^a,b   Cantù, Chiara ^a   Tunisini, Annalisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business actors; Collaborative innovation; Heterogeneity; Innovation networks; Interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865989631     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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