Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development

1987/01/01 by Richard C. Levin, Alvin K. Klevorick, Richard R. Nelson +4 · 15 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Economic Growth and Productivity

paper · doi:10.2307/2534454

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Abstract

Richard C. Levin, Alvin K. Klevorick, Richard R. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter, Richard Gilbert, Zvi Griliches, Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1987, No. 3, Special Issue On Microeconomics (1987), pp. 783-831

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