Using Crunchbase for economic and managerial research

This note describes a new database on innovative start-ups and companies, called Crunchbase, with a focus on its potential for economic and managerial research. Crunchbase is rapidly being discovered by scholars from different fields. It has notably already informed studies on specific sectors as we...

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Main Author: Dalle, Jean-Michel
Other Authors: den Besten, Matthijs, Menon, Carlo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2017
Series:OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers
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