Productivity, creative destruction and innovation policy: Some implications from the Australian experience

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-368

  Foster, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic policy; Entrepreneurial activity; Fiscal stimulus; National innovation system; Productivity growth; Schumpeterian evolutionary economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952741166     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.12.3.355     Document Type: Article

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