Entrepreneurship and local growth: A comparison of the US and Sweden

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Local Processes and Global Patterns

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-91

  Borgman, Benny ^a   Braunerhjelm, Pontus ^b  

^a Pfizer AB   (Sweden)

^b The Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum   (Sweden)

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