Creativity and entrepreneurship: A regional analysis of new firm formation

Regional Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 879-891

  Lee, Sam Youl ^a,d   Florida, Richard ^a,d   Acs, Zoltan J ^b,c  

^a Korea Info Strategy Devmt Inst   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Entrepreneurship; New firm formation

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; HUMAN CAPITAL; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 8744255245     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034340042000280910     Document Type: Article

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