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Network Actors Within Entrepreneurial Networks: The Current State of Research

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express our very great appreciation to Dr. Adrian Diery, Dr. Susanne Perner, and Katharina Bayer for their valuable suggestions and comments.

We would also like to extend our thanks to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and especially the Climate KIC Ph.D. Program for financing this research.

Furthermore, special thanks go to Nico Pallotta, Mayra Buschle, Nina Thom, Carsten Häusler, and Wojciech Kulig for their support in the data analysis.

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    Karina Cagarman & Jan Kratzer

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Cagarman, K., Kratzer, J. (2017). Network Actors Within Entrepreneurial Networks: The Current State of Research. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110184-1

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