Business angel academies: Unleashing the potential for business angel investment

Venture Capital

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-165

  José, Amparo San ^a   Roure, Juan ^a   Aernoudt, Rudy ^b  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b EHSAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business angel academy; Business angels; Investment skills; Knowledge gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444372658     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060500063392     Document Type: Article

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