Innovation performance in the shadow of expropriability - Interplay of the appropriability regime and competitors' absorptive capacity

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hurmelinna Laukkanen, Pia ^a   Puumalainen, Kaisu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Appropriability; Competitor; Expropriability; Innovation performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888641131     PISSN: 02198770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219877013500028     Document Type: Article

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