A brave leap or a gradual climb? the dynamics of investment in R&D of integrative technologies

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 201-222

  Setter, Oren ^a   Tishler, Asher ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Defense R D; Dynamic optimization; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745568266     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690600645100     Document Type: Review

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