Fostering entrepreneurship in distressed urban neighbourhoods

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-128

  Welter, Friederike ^a   Trettin, Lutz ^b   Neumann, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship promotion; Local economies; Local networks; Social capital; Urban districts renewal

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449127500     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-007-0069-5     Document Type: Article

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