Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Development

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 555, 2011, Pages 1161-1191

  Branstetter, Lee ^a   Saggi, Kamal ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 80053053929     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02440.x     Document Type: Article

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