Research Risk and Public Policy in a Knowledge-Based Economy: The Relative Research Efficiency of Government Versus University Labs

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 294-304

  Leyden, Dennis Patrick ^a   Link, Albert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge based economy; Public policy; Research and Development (R D); Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901265644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18687873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13132-012-0145-0     Document Type: Article

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