Firm level innovation and productivity-Is there a common story across countries?

Problems and Perspectives in Management

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 184-204

  Janz, Norbert ^a   Lööf, Hans ^b   Peters, Bettina ^c  

^a AACHEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research   (Sweden)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applied econometrics; Cross country comparison; Innovation; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845458460     PISSN: 17277051     EISSN: 18105467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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