Enhancing the flow of knowledge to innovation: Challenges for university-based knowledge transfer systems

Creating Wealth from Knowledge: Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 335-358

  Sharifi, Hossein ^a   Liu, Weisheng ^a   McCaul, Brian ^b   Kehoe, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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