Absorptive capacity and foreign spillovers: A stochastic frontier approach

Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 121-144

  Jacob, Jojo ^a   Los, Bart ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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