High-growth firms, innovation and the distance to the frontier

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1016-1024

  Hölzl, Werner ^a   Friesenbichler, Klaus ^a  

^a Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)   (Australia)

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