Geographic scope of proximity effects among small life sciences firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1059-1086

  Kolympiris, Christos ^a   Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic scope; Knowledge spillovers; Life sciences; Proximity effects; SBIR; Spatial externalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876686611     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-012-9441-0     Document Type: Article

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