Digital technologies as external enablers of new venture creation in the it hardware sector

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 47-69

  von Briel, Frederik ^a   Davidsson, Per ^a,b   Recker, Jan ^a,c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital technologies; Entrepreneurship as a process; External enablers; Hardware start ups; IT hardware sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053542834     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1042258717732779     Document Type: Article

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