Production of Scientific Knowledge and Radical Uncertainty: The Limits of the Normative Approach in Innovation Economics
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- David Moroz, 2005. "Production of Scientific Knowledge and Radical Uncertainty: The Limits of the Normative Approach in Innovation Economics," Post-Print hal-02557935, HAL.
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