Inside the black box of business incubation: Study B - Scale assessment, model refinement, and incubation outcomes

Journal of Technology Transfer

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 439-471

  Hackett, Sean M ^a   Dilts, David M ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business incubation; Entrepreneurship; Scale development

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOXES; BUSINESS INCUBATIONS; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; MODEL REFINEMENT; NEW VENTURES; PRE-TESTING; SCALE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL MODELING;

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 48449093043     PISSN: 08929912     EISSN: 15737047     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10961-007-9056-9     Document Type: Article

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