Review essay: Regional Venture Capital policy: UK and Germany compared1

Venture Capital

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 373-383

  Heger, Diana ^a   Fier, Andreas ^a   Murray, Gordon ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Government policy; Public funding; Regional government analysis; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 28144457355     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060500138756     Document Type: Review

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