Why Is It So Difficult to Translate Innovation Economics into Useful and Applicable Policy Prescriptions?

Dominique Foray
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Copyright 2012
ISBN 9780226473031
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
Book: The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
Book editors: Josh Lerner & Scott Stern
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Dominique Foray, The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (University of Chicago Press, 2011), https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/rate-and-direction-inventive-activity-revisited/why-it-so-difficult-translate-innovation-economics-useful-and-applicable-policy-prescriptions.

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