Tax incentives for randd and innovation: Demand versus effects

Foresight Russia

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 18-41

  Gokhberg, Leonid ^a   Kitova, Galina ^a   Roud, Vitaliy ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Innovation; Manufacturing enterprises; R D; Research institutes; Tax behaviour; Tax incentives; Universities performing R D

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928814949     PISSN: 1995459X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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