Virtuous and vicious cycles in the contributions of public research universities to state economic development objectives

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-150

  Feller, Irwin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Higher education; R and D; Research; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EID: 2642572702     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242403262042     Document Type: Article

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