Towards sustainable competitiveness: Comparison of the successful and unsuccessful eco-innovators

International Journal of Innovation Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Forsman, Helena ^a   Temel, Serdal ^b   Uotila, Marjo ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TEKEL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; environment; innovation; strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878566030     PISSN: 13639196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S136391961340015X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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