Alliance formation of smes: Empirical evidence from standardization committees

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 148-156

  Blind, Knut ^a   Mangelsdorf, Axel ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knowledge spillovers; patents; research and development (R; D) cooperation; small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); standardization; trade

Indexed keywords

ALLIANCE FORMATION; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; FIRM SIZE; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; MACHINERY INDUSTRY; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PATENT PORTFOLIO; PATENTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RELATIVE SIZES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; STANDARD SETTING; U-SHAPED;

COMMERCE; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; MACHINERY; STANDARDIZATION;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84872682187     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2012.2192935     Document Type: Article

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