Similarities between the growth dynamics of university research and of competitive economic activities

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6743, 1999, Pages 433-437

  Plerou, Vasilikl ^a,b   Nunes Amaral, Luís A ^a   Goplkrishnan, Parameswaran ^a   Meyer, Martin ^a   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a Boston University ^*  (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 0345298269     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22719     Document Type: Article

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