‘Hardly Likely to Make the Japanese Tremble’: The Businesses of Recently Graduated University and College ‘Entrepreneurs’

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 435-459

  Rosa, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alumni; commercialization; enterprise; entrepreneurship; graduates; higher education; small business

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997942196     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/02662426030214004     Document Type: Article

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