Dressing the emperor: The fabric of entrepreneurship policy

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 94-129

  Stevenson, Lois ^a   Lundström, Anders ^b  

^a International Development Research Centre   (Egypt)

^b Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research FSF   (Sweden)

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