Internal and external factors in innovation persistence

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 256-280

  Antonelli, Cristiano ^a,b   Crespi, Francesco ^b,c   Scellato, Giuseppe ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Bureau of Research on Innovation   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

innovation; knowledge cumulability; knowledge externalities; path dependence; persistence; sequential Markov chains; TFP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879615914     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2012.708135     Document Type: Article

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