Identifying criteria for public agricultural research decisions

Research Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 725-734

  Braunschweig, Thomas ^a,b   Janssen, Willem ^b   Rieder, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Intl Serv for Natl Agric Res   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural research; Criteria identification; Public decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035336203     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00122-0     Document Type: Article

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