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Scenarios Under High Uncertainty and Low Returns

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The assessment of future entrepreneurship using existing traditional evaluation methods has great difficulty incorporating the conditions expected to prevail in both the short-and long-term, which can be summarized by high-frequency uncertainty and low nominal returns.

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Petrakis, P.E., Konstantakopoulou, D.P. (2015). Scenarios Under High Uncertainty and Low Returns. In: Uncertainty in Entrepreneurial Decision Making. Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460790_11

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