The dynamics of technological knowledge: from linearity to recombination

Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 181-200

  Krafft, Jackie ^a   Quatraro, Francesco ^a,b  

^a GREDEG CNRS   (France)

^b ICER   (Italy)

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EID: 79960346977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857930378.00014     Document Type: Chapter

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