Challenges for spatially oriented entrepreneurship research

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 575-602

  Trettin, Lutz ^a   Welter, Friederike ^b  

^a Rhine Westphalia Institute for Economic Research   (Germany)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Entrepreneurship; Networks

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL LINKAGE; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; METHODOLOGY; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RESEARCH;

EID: 79961212235     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985621003792988     Document Type: Review

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