Trial by market: the Brightstar incubation experiment

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-200

  Ford, Simon ^a   Probert, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business model; corporate entrepreneurship; corporate incubator; corporate spin out; industrial ecosystem; technology incubation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881981112     PISSN: 17425360     EISSN: 17425379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEV.2010.034821     Document Type: Article

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