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Processes of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation

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The creation of new enterprises is at the basis of economic and social development (Wu 1989; Timmons 1999). It conditions developments from the results of basic and applied technological research and the industrialization and commercialization of innovations (Del giudice et al. 2013a, b; Carayannis and Korres 2013; Campbell and Carayannis 2013).

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Carayannis, E.G. (2014). Processes of Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation. In: Student Entrepreneurship in the Social Knowledge Economy. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05567-1_1

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