Industry innovativeness, firm size, and entrepreneurship: Schumpeter Mark III?

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 713-736

  Dolfsma, Wilfred ^a   van der Velde, Gerben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WINDESHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Firm entry; Industry dynamics; Industry innovativeness; Innovation; Large firms; New product announcements; Schumpeter Mark III; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939874140     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: 14321386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-014-0352-x     Document Type: Article

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