Does the apple always fall close to the tree? The geographical proximity choice of spin-outs

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 120-136

  Berchicci, Luca ^a   King, Andrew ^b   Tucci, Christopher L ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Entrepreneurship; Evolutionary economics; Spin outs; Technological linkages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255179081     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.110     Document Type: Article

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