Knowledge and entrepreneurial employees: A country-level analysis

Small Business Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 887-898

  Stam, Erik ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial employees; GEM; Independent entrepreneurship; Innovation; Knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888068268     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-013-9511-y     Document Type: Article

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