Stability in national patterns of technological specialisation:some historical evidence from patent data

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 331-354

  Vertova, Giovanna ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced countries; Cumulativeness, Incremental change; Evolutionary theory; Patents; Technological specialisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847519399     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438599900000014     Document Type: Article

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