Understanding academic entrepreneurship: Exploring the emergence of university spin-off ventures using process theories

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 448-471

  Rasmussen, Einar ^a  

^a Graduate School of Business   (Norway)

Author keywords

academic entrepreneurship; dialectical; evolutionary; life cycle; process theory; teleological; university spin off venture

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053636463     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610385395     Document Type: Article

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