Transfers of user process innovations to process equipment producers: A study of Dutch high-tech firms
A detailed survey of 498 high technology small and medium-sized enterprises in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common practice. Fifty-four percent of these firms reported developing entirely novel process equipment or software for their own use and/or modifying these, bo...
Main Authors: | de Jong, Jeroen P. J., von Hippel, Eric A. |
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Other Authors: | Sloan School of Management |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Elsevier
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52691 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7235-1032 |
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