Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth: Evidence from GEM data

Small Business Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 335-350

  Wong, Poh Kam ^a   Ho, Yuen Ping ^a   Autio, Erkko ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444371703     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-005-2000-1     Document Type: Article

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