The future of public efforts to boost entrepreneurship and venture capital

Small Business Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 255-264

  Lerner, Josh ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship policy; Innovation; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956657412     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9298-z     Document Type: Article

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