Does academic entrepreneurship pay?

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 281-311

  Åstebro, Thomas ^a   Braunerhjelm, Pontus ^b,c   Broström, Anders ^c  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; HIGHER EDUCATION; INCOME; KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 84873829287     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dts044     Document Type: Article

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