Another cluster premium: Innovation subsidies and R&D collaboration networks

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1431-1444

  Broekel, Tom ^a   Fornahl, Dirk ^b   Morrison, Andrea ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration networks; Embeddedness; Innovation policy; R D subsidy; Technology cluster

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS; COLLABORATION NETWORK; EMBEDDEDNESS; INNOVATION POLICIES; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84937957391     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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