Women business ventures in Swedish university incubators

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-96

  Dahlstrand, Asa Lindholm ^a,b   Politis, Diamanto ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Academic entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Incubators; Research commercialization; Sweden; Universities; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878851116     PISSN: 17566266     EISSN: 17566274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17566261311305229     Document Type: Article

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