The perfect storm of business venturing? The case of entomology-based venture creation

Agricultural and Food Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pascucci, Stefano ^a   Dentoni, Domenico ^a   Mitsopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Insects; Prisoner s Dilemma; Radical innovation; Venture creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962252959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40100-014-0025-y     Document Type: Article

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