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Original Articles

Guilty by Association: A Cross-industrial Approach to Sourcing Complementary Knowledge in the Uppsala Biotechnology Cluster

Pages 1605-1624 | Received 01 Dec 2006, Accepted 01 Dec 2008, Published online: 23 Sep 2009

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