Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Evidence from German Establishment Data

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-538

  Jirjahn, Uwe ^a   Kraft, Kornelius ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 79959475578     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00618.x     Document Type: Article

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