Succeeding in innovation: key insights on the role of R&D and technological acquisition drawn from company data

Empirical Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1317-1340

  Conte, Andrea ^a   Vivarelli, Marco ^b,c,d  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community innovation survey; Embodied technical change; Process innovation; Product innovation; R D; Sample selection; SUR

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

ITALY;

EID: 84919965980     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0779-1     Document Type: Article

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