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What Type of Companies Benefits from University Spillovers?

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Over the last decades firms have broken away from purely internally oriented innovation activities to more interactive and open innovation processes (Chesbrough 2003; Christensen et al. 2005), because they recognize that the development and the production of their products have to rely on a wide range of external ideas, component technologies, and complementary capabilities.

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    Both Lundvall and Freeman attribute the first usage of the term ‚national innovation system’ to the other.

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Ebersberger, B., Altmann, A., Herstad, S.J. (2012). What Type of Companies Benefits from University Spillovers?. In: Altmann, A., Ebersberger, B. (eds) Universities in Change. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4590-6_19

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