Small Entrepreneurial Firms and Large Companies in Inter-Firm R&D Networks - the International Biotechnology Industry

Strategic Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Mindset

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 223-252

  Hagedoorn, John ^a   Roijakkers, Nadine ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Research questions; Small entrepreneurial firms

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EID: 84954295615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164085.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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