The selection and nurturing effects of corporate investors on new venture innovativeness

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 311-330

  Park, Haemin Dennis ^a   Steensma, H Kevin ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Corporate venture capital; Innovation; Multiple agency theory; Technology entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889638896     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1165     Document Type: Article

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