Policy support for small firms in rural areas: The English experience

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 825-841

  Smallbone, David ^a   Baldock, Robert ^a   North, David ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL POLICY; POLICY STRATEGY; RURAL ECONOMY; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1642520952     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0316     Document Type: Article

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