The determinants of R&D persistence in SMEs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 505-528

  Máñez, Juan A ^a   Rochina Barrachina, María E ^a   Sanchis Llopis, Amparo ^a   Sanchis Llopis, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demand pull; Discrete time survival models; Learning; Persistence; R D activities; SMEs; Success breeds success; Sunk costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941733939     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9611-3     Document Type: Article

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