Points of View: Assessing the scale of the equity gap

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-132

  Harding, Rebecca ^a   Cowling, Marc ^b  

^a Deloitte   (United Kingdom)

^b THE WORK FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business development; Entrepreneurialism; Finance; United Kingdom; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644510084     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000610645351     Document Type: Article

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