Raising the batting average: Re-orientating regional industrial policy to generate more high growth firms

Local Economy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-49

  Brown, Ross ^a   Mason, Colin ^b  

^a Scottish Enterprise   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; high growth firms; industrial policy; regional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862909173     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269094211424252     Document Type: Article

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