Start-up rates and innovation: A cross-country examination

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-60

  Anokhin, Sergey ^a   Wincent, Joakim ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; secondary data source; technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855705841     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2011.47     Document Type: Article

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