Growth of Technology-based New Firms

The Blackwell Handbook of Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 329-347

  Autio, Erkko ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directions for future research; Strategic management stream; Technology based new firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046050644     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164214.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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