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- ↑ Assessing support of pilot production in multi-KETs activities, Maurits Butter, Marcel de Heide, Carlos Montalvo, Koen Dittrich, Laura Seiffert, Laura Cid Navazo, Axel Thielmann, Annette Braun, Michael Meister, David Holden, Finbarr Livesey, Eoin O’Sullivan, Christian Hartman, Mirari Zaldua, Nicolo Olivieri, and Leo Turno, Final report of the multi-KETs Pilot lines project, 28 August 2015. Retrieved on 5-3-2017 from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286026288_Assessing_support_of_pilot_production_in_multi-KETs_activities
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