Social Networks and Actual Knowledge Flow in the Irish Biotech Industry

European Planning Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1109-1126

  van Egeraat, Chris ^a   Curran, Declan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

IRELAND;

EID: 84902546999     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.761746     Document Type: Article

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