Understanding a new generation incubation model: The accelerator

Technovation

Volumn 50-51, Issue , 2016, Pages 13-24

  Pauwels, Charlotte ^a   Clarysse, Bart ^a,b   Wright, Mike ^a,b   Van Hove, Jonas ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerators; Activity system perspective; Design; Incubation models

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

ACTIVITY SYSTEMS; BUILDING BLOCKES; BUSINESS START-UPS; KEY DESIGN PARAMETERS; PRIMARY DESIGN; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 84944145192     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2015.09.003     Document Type: Article

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