Entrepreneurship: The role of clusters theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence from Germany

Small Business Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-292

  Rocha, Hector O ^a   Sternberg, Rolf ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clusters; Entrepreneurship; Germany; Industrial agglomerations; Neoclassical economics; Socioeconomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444395984     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-005-1993-9     Document Type: Article

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