Technological diversification within UK’s small serial innovators

Small Business Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 163-177

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

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversification; Fractional response model; Relatedness; Small serial innovators; SME; Technological opportunity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964683920     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9698-1     Document Type: Article

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