Distant networking? The out-cluster strategies of new biotechnology firms

Technology, Knowledge and the Firm: Implications for Strategy and Industrial Change

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 152-178

  Fontes, Margarida ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

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EID: 84881706498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781845424619.00015     Document Type: Chapter

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