Modeling and measuring the economic roles of technology infrastructure

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 615-629

  Tassey, Gregory ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Knowledge creation; Knowledge production function; Program impact assessment; R D policy; R D productivity; Technological change; Technology infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249183115     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438590701785439     Document Type: Article

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