What difference a "pre" makes: University business preincubators in Germany: a national survey ; paper accepted at the ICSB World Conference 2007 in Turku, Finland

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What difference a "pre" makes: University business preincubators in Germany: a national survey ; paper accepted at the ICSB World Conference 2007 in Turku, Finland. / Deutschmann, Mareike.
Lüneburg: Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2007. (Lüneburger Beiträge zur Gründungsforschung; No. 5).

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Deutschmann, M 2007 'What difference a "pre" makes: University business preincubators in Germany: a national survey ; paper accepted at the ICSB World Conference 2007 in Turku, Finland' Lüneburger Beiträge zur Gründungsforschung, no. 5, Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg.

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Deutschmann, M. (2007). What difference a "pre" makes: University business preincubators in Germany: a national survey ; paper accepted at the ICSB World Conference 2007 in Turku, Finland. (Lüneburger Beiträge zur Gründungsforschung; No. 5). Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg.

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Deutschmann M. What difference a "pre" makes: University business preincubators in Germany: a national survey ; paper accepted at the ICSB World Conference 2007 in Turku, Finland. Lüneburg: Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg. 2007. (Lüneburger Beiträge zur Gründungsforschung; 5).

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