The impact of technology transfer and R & D on productivity growth in Taiwanese industry: Microeconometric analysis using plant and firm-level data

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-192

  Branstetter, Lee ^a   Chen, Jong Rong ^b  

^a Columbia Business School ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Taiwan; Technological development; Technology imports

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646717751     PISSN: 08891583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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