Rent protection as a barrier to innovation and growth

Economic Theory

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 309-332

  Dinopoulos, Elias ^a   Syropoulos, Constantinos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers to innovation; Innovation contests; R D; Scale effects; Schumpeterian growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249707375     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0124-4     Document Type: Article

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