Profits, R&D, and innovation-a model and a test

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 649-678

  Bogliacino, Francesco ^a,b,c   Pianta, Mario ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c RISE Group   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; INNOVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROFITABILITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84878435419     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dts028     Document Type: Article

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