Learning from own and others' previous experience: The contribution of the venture capital firm to the likelihood of a portfolio company's trade sale

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 575-590

  Clarysse, Bart ^a,b   Bobelyn, Annelies ^a,b   del Aguirre, Itxaso Palacio ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Exit; Learning theory; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873746326     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9381-0     Document Type: Article

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