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The challenge of breaking the academia–business firewall in Czechia: comparing the role of differentiated knowledge bases in collaborative R&D projects

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Pages 809-831 | Received 13 Jul 2015, Accepted 04 Nov 2015, Published online: 06 Jan 2016

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