Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America

Small Business Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-322

  Acs, Zoltan J ^a,b   Amorós, José Ernesto ^c,d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

^d ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Development; Entrepreneurship; Latin America

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949096871     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9133-y     Document Type: Article

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