How has the Portuguese innovation capability evolved? Estimating a time series of the stock of technological knowledge (1960–2001)

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 77-95

  Teixeira, Aurora Amélia Castro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Innovation; JEL Classification: O31; O32; C19; O40; Measurement; R D expenditures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908311602     PISSN: 1476413X     EISSN: 17589509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.6.2.77_1     Document Type: Article

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