Academic entrepreneurship (re)defined: Significance and implications for the scholarship of higher education

Higher Education

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-460

  Mars, Matthew M ^a   Rios Aguilar, Cecilia ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic entrepreneurship; Comparative research; Content analysis; Entrepreneurship; Theoretical frameworks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951204626     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-009-9258-1     Document Type: Article

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