R&D investment and financing constraints of small and medium-sized firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-83

  Czarnitzki, Dirk ^a   Hottenrott, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capital investment; Censored regression models; Financial constraints; Panel data; R D investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650254139     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9189-3     Document Type: Article

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