The economics of entrepreneurship: What we know and what we don't

Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-54

  Parker, Simon C ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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