Technological development and rates of return to investment in a catching-up economy: The case of South Korea

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 405-425

  Timmer, Marcel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Investment; Manufacturing industries; South Korea; Technology

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; LEARNING; MANUFACTURING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 0142072564     PISSN: 0954349X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-349X(03)00028-6     Document Type: Article

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