Innovation, technology transfer and labor productivity linkages: Evidence from a panel of manufacturing industries

Review of World Economics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 491-508

  Apergis, Nicholas ^b   Economidou, Claire ^a   Filippidis, Ioannis ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Utrecht University ^*

Author keywords

Innovation; Manufacturing industries; Panel cointegration; Productivity; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749105537     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-008-0157-9     Document Type: Article

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