An institutional perspective of public policy and network effects in the renewable energy industry: enablers or disablers of entrepreneurial behaviour and innovation?

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 126-156

  Doblinger, Claudia ^a   Dowling, Michael ^a   Helm, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; innovation; institutional theory; network ties; public policy; renewable energy technologies; structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; DECISION MAKING; ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NUMERICAL MODEL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84955351972     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2015.1109004     Document Type: Article

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