The path-dependent nature of R&D search: Implications for (and from) competition

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1450-1461

  Oraiopoulos, Nektarios ^a   Kavadias, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

competition; knowledge spillovers; R D Search; technological landscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906342782     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12198     Document Type: Article

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