Characteristics of foreign R&Dstrategies of swiss firms: Implications for policy

The New Economics of Technology Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 248-271

  Hollenstein, Heinz ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

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