Innovation policy as cargo cult: Myth and reality in knowledge-led productivity growth

Creating Wealth from Knowledge: Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 80-104

  Hughes, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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