Editorial : business partnerships : the formal , the informal , and the local
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Nick Vonortas is the Director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy and of the Science, Technology and Public Policy graduate programme of George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. Professor Vonortas’ teaching and research interests are in industrial organisation, the economics of technological change, and science and technology policy. He has published several books and many papers in international journals.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004