Critical role and screening practices of European business incubators

Technovation

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 254-267

  Aerts, Kris ^a   Matthyssens, Paul ^b,c   Vandenbempt, Koen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business incubator; Performance; Tenant failure; Tenant screening

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MARKETING;

BUSINESS INCUBATOR; TENANT FAILURE; TENANT SCREENING;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 34247374762     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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