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Spin-off Firms and Individual Start-ups: Are They Really Different?
This paper shows, based on an empirical study of American entrepreneurs, that spin-offs are indeed a step ahead of firms that do not receive support from a third party company.
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http://www.ersa.org/ersaconfs/ersa04/PDF/287.pdf