Differential gains from Business Link support and advice: A treatment effects approach

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 315-334

  Mole, Kevin ^a   Hart, Mark ^b   Roper, Stephen ^a   Saal, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EMPLOYMENT; GENDER RELATIONS; OECD; PROBABILITY; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 42949156818     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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