The impact of multilevel networks on innovation

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 545-559

  Guan, Jiancheng ^a,b   Zhang, Jingjing ^a   Yan, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative energy; Innovation performance; Multilevel collaboration networks

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CLUSTERING COEFFICIENT; COLLABORATION NETWORK; INNOVATION NETWORK THEORY; INNOVATION PERFORMANCE; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; MULTI-LEVEL NETWORKS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84923169809     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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