Impact of External Knowledge Acquisition Strategies on Innovation: A Comparative Study Based on Dutch and Swiss Panel Data

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 359-382

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a   Lokshin, Boris ^b   Mohnen, Pierre ^c   Woerter, Martin ^a  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Make and buy strategies; Open innovation; R D collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939938175     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: 15737160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-015-9450-7     Document Type: Article

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