Relationship lending and innovation: empirical evidence on a sample of European firms

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 335-357

  Cosci, Stefania ^a   Meliciani, Valentina ^b   Sabato, Valentina ^a  

^a LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

credit constraints; innovation; R D; Relationship lending; soft information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958915903     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2015.1062098     Document Type: Article

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