Complementarities in the search for innovation—Managing markets and relationships

Research Policy

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2036-2053

  Grimpe, Christoph ^a,b   Sofka, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Innovation performance; Markets for technology; Search strategies

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; INNOVATION ACTIVITY; INNOVATION PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; MARKETS FOR TECHNOLOGY; SEARCH STRATEGIES;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84994200798     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2016.07.007     Document Type: Article

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