Start-up activities, individual characteristics, and the regional milieu: Lessons for entrepreneurship support policies from German micro data

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-240

  Wagner, Joachim ^a   Sternberg, Rolf ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL POLICY;

EID: 2542443854     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-004-0193-x     Document Type: Article

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