A cross-country comparison of innovation efficiency

Scientometrics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 541-575

  Guan, Jiancheng ^a   Zuo, Kairui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cross country comparison; Innovation efficiency; Network DEA; Redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904181469     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1288-5     Document Type: Article

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