R&D manpower and technological performance: The impact of demographic and task-related diversity

Research Policy

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1624-1633

  Faems, Dries ^a   Subramanian, Annapoornima M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Diversity; R D manpower; Technological performance

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY;

DIVERSITY; GENDER DIVERSITY; KNOWLEDGE AREAS; SURVEY DATA; TEAM DIVERSITY; TECHNOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE; TWO SOURCES; TWO-DIMENSION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84885647040     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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