Do innovative users generate more useful insights? An analysis of corporate venture capital investments in the medical device industry

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 151-167

  Smith, Sheryl Winston ^a   Shah, Sonali K ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate venture capital; Innovation; New product development; Technology entrepreneurship; User innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878650043     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1152     Document Type: Article

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