Geography, knowledge spillovers and small firms' exports: An empirical examination for The Netherlands

Small Business Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-339

  van Beers, Cees ^a   van der Panne, Gerben ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exports; Innovation; Scale economies; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052945153     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9245-z     Document Type: Article

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