Knowledge spillovers and new ventures' export orientation

Small Business Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 283-303

  De Clercq, Dirk ^a   Hessels, Jolanda ^b,c   Van Stel, André ^b,d  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Country level entrepreneurship; Export; Knowledge spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949108448     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9132-z     Document Type: Article

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