The emergence of sustainable innovations: Key factors and regional support structures

Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-133

  Hofman, Peter S ^a   De Bruijn, Theo ^b  

^a University of Nottingham   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Innovation support structures; Policy change; Radical innovation; Regional innovation systems; Small and medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889986264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3159-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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