Faculty consulting in natural sciences and engineering: Between formal and informal knowledge transfer

Higher Education

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 359-384

  Amara, Nabil ^a   Landry, Réjean ^a   Halilem, Norrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic consulting; Engineering; Knowledge transfer; Natural sciences; Paid consulting; Regression models; Unpaid consulting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873745282     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9549-9     Document Type: Article

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