Does federally financed business R and D matter for US productivity growth?

Applied Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1619-1625

  Bönte, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROWTH DETERMINATION; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345530745     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684032000125079     Document Type: Article

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