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How Important are Knowledge-Intensive Services for their Client Industries? An Assessment of their Impact on Productivity and Innovation

In: The Handbook of Innovation and Services

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  • José A. Camacho
  • Mercedes Rodriguez

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This Handbook brings together 49 international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world’s post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services.

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  • José A. Camacho & Mercedes Rodriguez, 2010. "How Important are Knowledge-Intensive Services for their Client Industries? An Assessment of their Impact on Productivity and Innovation," Chapters, in: Faïz Gallouj & Faridah Djellal (ed.), The Handbook of Innovation and Services, chapter 18, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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