Exploring and exploiting external knowledge: The effect of sector and firm technological intensity

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-217

  Segarra Ciprés, Mercedes ^a   Bou Llusar, Juan Carlos ^a   Roca Puig, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

External knowledge; Hiring r d employees; Knowledge exploitation; Knowledge exploration; R D outputs; Technological cooperation; Technological intensity of the sector and the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866262106     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.2012.14.2.203     Document Type: Article

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