Job machine, think tank, or both: What makes corporate spin-offs different?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 369-391

  Fryges, Helmut ^a   Müller, Bettina ^b   Niefert, Michaela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate spin offs; KfW ZEW Start Up Panel; Knowledge and technology transfer; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904158573     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-013-9540-6     Document Type: Article

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