The importance of surrogate entrepreneurship for incubated Swedish technology ventures

Technovation

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 93-100

  Lundqvist, Mats A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial team formation; Surrogate entrepreneur; Technology venture performance; University incubation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; SURROGATE ENTREPRENEUR; SWEDISHS; TEAM FORMATION; TECHNOLOGY VENTURES; UNIVERSITY INCUBATION; UNIVERSITY INCUBATORS; VENTURE CREATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84891625092     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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