Venture capital returns in Australia

Venture Capital

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-45

  Fleming, Grant ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; IPOs; Returns; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842710005     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369106042000175573     Document Type: Article

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