Technological communities and networks: Triggers and drivers for innovation

Technological Communities and Networks: Triggers and Drivers for Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-231

  Assimakopoulos, Dimitris G ^a  

^a GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203417461     Document Type: Book

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