Innovation financing and the role of relationship lending for SMEs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 449-473

  Brancati, Emanuele ^a,b  

^a LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b MET   (Italy)

Author keywords

Financial constraints; Innovation; Relationship lending; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943014647     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9603-3     Document Type: Article

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