Is there a market for ideas?

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 805-837

  Gans, Joshua S ^a   Stern, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; DESIGN; INNOVATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77955719181     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq023     Document Type: Article

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