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Social Capital’s and Absorptive Capacities’ Impact on New Ventures’ Growth

In: Creative Knowledge Cities

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  • Danny P. Soetano
  • Mozhdeh Taheri
  • Marina van Geenhuizen

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This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies.

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  • Danny P. Soetano & Mozhdeh Taheri & Marina van Geenhuizen, 2012. "Social Capital’s and Absorptive Capacities’ Impact on New Ventures’ Growth," Chapters, in: Marina van Geenhuizen & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), Creative Knowledge Cities, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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