Innovation strategies and performance in small firms

Innovation Strategies and Performance in Small Firms

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-375

  Baldwin, John ^a   Gellatly, Guy ^a  

^a Statistics   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781781009703     Document Type: Book

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