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In Conclusion: What Research Is Missing for Cooperative Research Centers?

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In his preface to this volume, Louis Tornatzky rightly notes that “this is the first summative amalgamation of theory-driven empirical research on the phenomenon of cooperative research centers, despite the fact that centers of this nature have been around for over 30 years(.)”

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Bozeman, B. (2013). In Conclusion: What Research Is Missing for Cooperative Research Centers?. In: Boardman, C., Gray, D., Rivers, D. (eds) Cooperative Research Centers and Technical Innovation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4388-9_14

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