Determinants of Firms' Backward- and Forward-Looking R&D Search Behavior

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Organ. Sci.

• Publication date

  2008-07-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/orsc.1070.0320
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