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Towards an entrepreneurial ecosystem typology for regional economic development: the role of creative class and entrepreneurship

David B. Audretscha Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA. [email protected]View further author information
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Maksim Belitskib Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading, UK; and ICD Business School, Paris, France.Correspondence[email protected]
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Pages 735-756 | Received 16 Jul 2019, Published online: 04 Jan 2021

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