Creating innovative opportunities through research collaboration: An evolutionary framework and empirical illustration in engineering

Technovation

Volumn 39-40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-36

  McKelvey, Maureen ^a   Zaring, Olof ^a   Ljungberg, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case study; Evolutionary economics; Firm size; Innovative opportunity creation; Research collaboration

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS; EVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK; FIRM SIZE; INNOVATIVE OPPORTUNITY CREATION; MARKET OPPORTUNITIES; RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS; UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIES;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84933673326     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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