Venture capital investments and patenting activity of high-tech start-ups: A micro-econometric firm-level analysis

Venture Capital

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 307-326

  Bertoni, Fabio ^a   Croce, Annalisa ^a   D'Adda, Diego ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

New technology based firms; Patents; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957865015     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691066.2010.486157     Document Type: Article

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