Promoting entrepreneurship in the welfare state

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 64-93

  Henrekson, Magnus ^a   Roine, Jesper ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

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