Entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy

Creating Wealth from Knowledge: Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 145-176

  Stam, Erik ^a,b   Garnsey, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

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