On young highly innovative companies: Why they matter and how (not) to policy support them

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 969-1007

  Schneider, Cédric ^a,b,c   Veugelers, Reinhilde ^b,d,e  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR)   (Denmark)

^d BRUEGEL   (Belgium)

^e CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; EUROPEAN UNION; FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INNOVATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

GERMANY;

EID: 77955254654     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtp052     Document Type: Article

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