SME policy support in Britain since the 1990s: What have we learnt?

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 375-397

  Bennett, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECENTRALIZATION; ECONOMIC POLICY; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGIONAL POLICY; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 42949128654     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c07118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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