Financing Innovation

Annual Review of Financial Economics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 445-462

  Kerr, William R ^a   Nanda, Ramana ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks; Entrepreneurship; Experimentation; Finance; Innovation; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949511542     PISSN: 19411367     EISSN: 19411375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-financial-111914-041825     Document Type: Review

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