Entrepreneurial Universities: Socioeconomic Impacts of Academic Entrepreneurship in a European Region

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-55

  Urbano, David ^a   Guerrero, Maribel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Orkestra Basque Institute of Competitiveness and Deusto Business School   (Spain)

Author keywords

entrepreneurship; small business; university role in economic development

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; ENTREPRENEUR; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84873421183     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: 15523543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242412471973     Document Type: Article

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