Founders' human capital and the performance of UK new technology based firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 495-515

  Ganotakis, Panagiotis ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Human capital; New technology based firms; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863087856     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9309-0     Document Type: Article

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