Patrucco, Pier Paolo - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 18 (2009) 3, pp. 295-310
Technological knowledge can be understood as a collective good only when its production requires the absorption and … integration of external knowledge. Such external knowledge is the outcome of R&D investments that cannot be fully appropriated by … firms and generate spillovers. The exploitation of such knowledge spillovers requires specific investments in knowledge …