Entrepreneurial firms and downstream alliance partnerships: Impact of portfolio depth and scope on technology innovation and commercialization success

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1389-1400

  Hora, Manpreet ^a   Dutta, Dev K ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

alliance portfolio; biotech industry; depth and scope; technology commercialization success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888355143     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01410.x     Document Type: Article

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