Innovation-based industrial policy in emerging economies? The case of Israel's IT industry

Business and Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1-35

  Breznitz, Dan ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial transformation and development; Information technologies; Innovative capabilities' diffusion; Late development; Science and technology policies; Systems of innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846178239     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1155     Document Type: Article

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