Location decisions of knowledge-based entrepreneurs: Why some Catalan KISAs choose to be rural?

Technovation

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 590-600

  Lafuente, Esteban ^a,b   Vaillant, Yancy ^b   Serarols, Christian ^b  

^a Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Research (CEBR)   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Location decision; New knowledge intensive service activity firms (KISA); Rural policy

Indexed keywords

CATALANS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; INNOVATION POLICIES; LOCATION DECISION; LOCATION DECISIONS; NEW KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE SERVICE ACTIVITY FIRMS (KISA); POLICY MAKING; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POLICY; SERVICE ACTIVITIES;

INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REGIONAL PLANNING; RURAL AREAS;

LOCATION;

EID: 77957347793     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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