Does venture capital investment really require spatial proximity? An empirical investigation

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2114-2131

  Fritsch, Michael ^a,b,c   Schilder, Dirk ^d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

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

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DATABASE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INVESTMENT LOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 65949115937     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a39353     Document Type: Article

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