The medium-term effect of R&D on firm growth

Small Business Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 39-62

  Capasso, Marco ^a   Treibich, Tania ^a,b,c   Verspagen, Bart ^a,d,e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GREDEG CNRS   (France)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^d UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Firm growth; Industrial dynamics; Quantile regression; R D expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939947415     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9640-6     Document Type: Article

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