Venture capital investor type and the growth mode of new technology-based firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 527-552

  Bertoni, Fabio ^a   Colombo, Massimo G ^a   Grilli, Luca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corporate venture capital; Firm growth; Grandstanding; High tech start ups; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873748664     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9385-9     Document Type: Article

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