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Innovative Behaviour of Industrial Firms: Results From a Dutch Empirical Study

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In recent years innovation research has increasingly been linked to product life cycle analysis. The revival of the ‘long waves’ debate, the increasing interest in Schumpeterian economic dynamics and the analysis of portfolio cycles reflect the view that new ‘technical regimes’ are to be regarded as the vehicles of qualitative structural changes and of (quantitatively and qualitatively) more favourable employment conditions.

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Davelaar, E.J., Nijkamp, P. (1989). Innovative Behaviour of Industrial Firms: Results From a Dutch Empirical Study. In: Andersson, Å.E., Batten, D.F., Karlsson, C. (eds) Knowledge and Industrial Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95597-6_13

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