On the role of academic staff as entrepreneurs in university spinoffs: Case studies of biotechnology firms in Norway

Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Growth and Performance: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 267-298

  Spilling, Olav R ^a  

^a NIFU STEP ^*  (Norway)

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