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Sudipto Bhattacharya, Jacob Glazer, David E. M. Sappington, Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R & D Contests, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Dec., 1990), pp. 187-208
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