Determinants of R&D activities by start-up firms: Evidence from Japan

Small Business: Innovation, Problems and Strategy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-44

  Okamuro, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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