Learning to be Edison: Inventors, organizations, and breakthrough inventions

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 833-849

  Conti, Raffaele ^a   Gambardella, Alfonso ^b   Mariani, Myriam ^b  

^a CATÓLICA LISBON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breakthrough inventions; Individual inventors; Inventive experience; R D organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901357490     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0875     Document Type: Article

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