The patterns of venture capital investment in Europe

Small Business Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 543-560

  Bertoni, Fabio ^a   Colombo, Massimo G ^b   Quas, Anita ^a  

^a EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Europe; Relative specialization index; Venture capital; Young high tech companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940435597     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9662-0     Document Type: Article

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