Funding gap, what funding gap? Financial bootstrapping: Supply, demand and creation of entrepreneurial finance

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 268-295

  Lam, Wing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Finance; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953567901     PISSN: 13552554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552551011054480     Document Type: Article

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