Policy support for SMEs

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 571-576

  Blackburn, Robert ^a   Smallbone, David ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79961218392     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c2904ed     Document Type: Editorial

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