Firms size and directed technological change

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 207-218

  Antonelli, Cristiano ^a,b   Scellato, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Collegio Carlo Alberto   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Directed technological change; Growth accounting; Size of firms; Types of innovation processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939878544     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9593-1     Document Type: Article

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