Serial innovators in the UK: Does size matter?

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 23-47

  Corradini, Carlo ^a   Battisti, Giuliana ^b   Demirely, Pelin ^c  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84946958944     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtu040     Document Type: Article

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