Knowledge creation and exploitation in italian universities: The role of internal policies for patent activity

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 952-970

  Romano, Marco ^a   Giudice, Manlio Del ^b   Nicotra, Melita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Internal Policy; Knowledge exploitation; Patent; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914148607     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: 17587484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JKM-06-2014-0253     Document Type: Article

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