Does innovation help the good or the poor performing firms?

Economics Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 190-195

  Damijan, Jože P ^a,b   Kostevc, Črt ^a   Rojec, Matija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Innovation; Knowledge spillovers; Productivity growth; Research and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855791342     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.11.024     Document Type: Article

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