Metropolitan innovation, firm size, and business survival in a high-tech industry

Small Business Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 661-676

  Tsvetkova, Alexandra ^a   Thill, Jean Claude ^b   Strumsky, Deborah ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Business survival; Computer and electronic product manufacturing; Metropolitan innovation; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894078787     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9550-z     Document Type: Article

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