Competing inventors and the incentive to invent

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-72

  Spulber, Daniel F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); INCENTIVE; MONOPOLY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84873854359     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dts013     Document Type: Article

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