Does R&D performance decline with firm size? - A re-examination in terms of elasticity

Research Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 966-976

  Tsai, Kuen Hung ^a   Wang, Jiann Chyuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA INSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Firm size; R D; R D productivity

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY;

FIRM SIZE; INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 23044478100     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2005.05.017     Document Type: Article

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