Productivity growth and R&D expenditure in UK manufacturing firms

Research Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1079-1090

  Wakelin, Katharine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Productivity; R D expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035419915     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00136-0     Document Type: Article

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