You can't manage right what you can't measure well: Technological innovation efficiency

Research Policy

Volumn 42, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 1239-1250

  Cruz Cázares, Claudio ^a   Bayona Sáez, Cristina ^b   García Marco, Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

DEA bootstrap; Firm performance; Global; Malmquist index; Technological innovation efficiency

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; INDUSTRY;

DEA BOOTSTRAP; FIRM PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL; MALMQUIST INDICES; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84878873706     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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