Reaching Out and Reaching Within: A Study of the Relationship between Innovation Collaboration and Innovation Performance

Industry and Innovation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 539-561

  He, Zi Lin ^a   Wong, Poh Kam ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

innovation collaboration; innovation performance; local and global; Singapore

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; MANUFACTURING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84868116056     PISSN: 13662716     EISSN: 14698390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2012.726804     Document Type: Article

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