Selection, learning and Schumpeterian dynamics: A conceptual debate

Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 316-328

  Witt, Ulrich ^a,b   Cordes, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Archaeology   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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