Which firms benefit most from the incubators?

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 506-523

  Hytti, Ulla ^a   Mäki, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Incubation process; Incubator; Segmentation of client firms; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948816670     PISSN: 1368275X     EISSN: 17415098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEIM.2007.014594     Document Type: Article

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