Technological progress: a proposed measure

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-233

  Ayres, Robert U ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; METHODOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0032427284     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1625(98)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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