What does "entrepreneurship" data really show?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 265-281

  Acs, Zoltan J ^a,b   Desai, Sameeksha ^a,b   Klapper, Leora F ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship data; Entry; Global entrepreneurship monitor; Institutions; World Bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949112267     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9137-7     Document Type: Article

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