Innovation quality in knowledge cities: Empirical evidence of innovation award competitions in Finland

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5597-5604

  Makkonen, Teemu ^a   Inkinen, Tommi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Innovation awards; Innovation policy; Innovation prizes; Knowledge city

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FINLAND; INNOVATION POLICIES; INNOVATION PROMOTION; KNOWLEDGE CITY; MEDIA COVERAGE; QUESTIONNAIRE DATA;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84900556527     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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