Outsourcing of innovation

Economic Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 485-515

  Lai, Edwin L C ^a   Riezman, Raymond ^b   Wang, Ping ^c,d  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed versus revenue sharing contract; Principal agent problem; R D outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149350163     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0326-4     Document Type: Article

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