Sustainable entrepreneurship in the Dutch construction industry

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 505-523

  Woolthuis, Rosalinde J A Klein ^a,b  

^a VU University   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Construction sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation systems; Sustainability; Transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866523753     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2020505     Document Type: Article

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