Technology entrepreneurs' human capital and its effects on innovation radicalness

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 807-828

  Marvel, Matthew R ^a   Lumpkin, G Tom ^b  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 35048848906     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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