Do human capital and fund characteristics drive follow-up behaviour of early stage high-tech VCs?
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1 Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and University of Ghent 2 Centre for Management Buy-out Research, Nottingham University Business School 3 Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and University of Ghent 4 Centre for Management Buy-out Research, Nottingham University Business School Corresponding author: Mirjam Knockaert, Reep 1, 9000 Gent, [email protected] Thanks to Dirk de Clerq, the editor and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier version
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IJTM
دوره 34 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006