Jayawarna, Dilani; Jones, Oswald; Macpherson, Allan - In: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 23 (2011) 9-10, pp. 735-761
Over 7 years, the UK-Government funded an entrepreneurship scholarship scheme in the most deprived regions of England. This study examines how, for 211 of these nascent entrepreneurs, bootstrapping compensated for their inability to obtain debt or equity funding. Results show that social capital...