Academics' organizational characteristics and the generation of successful business ideas

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 821-845

  Grandi, Alessandro ^a   Grimaldi, Rosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Academic spin offs; Business ideas; Organizational characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644437185     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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