When does corporate venture capital investment create firm value?

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 753-772

  Dushnitsky, Gary ^a   Lenox, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate venture capital; Innovation; Tobin's q

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744777897     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2005.04.012     Document Type: Article

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