Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development

Small Business Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 293-309

  Wennekers, Sander ^a   Van Wennekers, André ^b   Thurik, Roy ^c   Reynolds, Paul ^d  

^a EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Nascent entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444411942     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-005-1994-8     Document Type: Article

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