Service regime: An empirical analysis of innovation patterns in service firms

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1569-1582

  Chang, Yuan Chieh ^a   Linton, Jonathan D ^b   Chen, Min Nan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Firm patterns of innovation; Service regime; Synthesis approach

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIABILITY; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INNOVATION TRAJECTORIES; LOOSELY COUPLED SYSTEMS; SERVICE FIRMS; SERVICE INNOVATION; SERVICE REGIME; SOURCES OF INNOVATION; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INNOVATION; TRAJECTORIES;

INDUSTRY;

INNOVATION; MODELING; SERVICE SECTOR; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84867097712     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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