Innovation networks: formation, performance and dynamics

Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 366-394

  Cantner, Uwe ^a,b   Graf, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 84882008250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857930378.00023     Document Type: Chapter

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