Russian Small Innovative Enterprises (SIEs), intellectual capital and competitiveness: knowledge-based SIEs in a transitional economy (Part I: conceptual framework and preliminary analysis of field research)

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 154-179

  Tovstiga, George ^a   Odenthal, Stefan ^a   Popova, Vera A ^b   Efimov, Igor P ^b   Moskalev, Sergey V ^b   Bortnik, Ivan M ^c  

^a Arthur D Little (Schweiz) AG   (Switzerland)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Federal Russian Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE)   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

determinants of competitiveness; intellectual capital; Small innovative enterprises; transitional economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961558421     PISSN: 14794853     EISSN: 14794861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2005.007031     Document Type: Article

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