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Technological competitiveness of the EU member states in the era of the fourth industrial revolution

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|Oct 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2019.3.4 | Journal eISSN: 2450-0097 | Journal ISSN: 2392-1641
Language: English
Page range: 50 - 71
Submitted on: Jul 15, 2019
Accepted on: Aug 20, 2019
Published on: Oct 23, 2019
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