Determinants of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in European regions: Distinguishing low and high ambition entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Growth in Local, Regional and National Economies: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 49-77

  Bosma, Niels ^a   Schutjens, Veronique ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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