The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of startups

Small Business Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-236

  Bosma, Niels ^a   Van Praag, Mirjam ^b   Thurik, Roy ^c   De Wit, Gerrit ^a  

^a EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 9744284196     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SBEJ.0000032032.21192.72     Document Type: Article

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