Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Josh Lerner -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Part One European Venture Capital Markets: Recent Developments and Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Venture capital in Europe: Closing the gap to the U.S. -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The European and U.S. venture capital markets - a comparison -- 1.3 Economic effects and government intervention -- 1.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Public venture capital across Europe: A 15-year perspective -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Public versus private VC -- 2.3 Hypotheses -- 2.4 Data -- 2.5 The evolution of public VC in Europe -- 2.6 Multivariate analyses -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Why venture capital markets are well developed in some countries but comparatively small in others: Evidence from Europe -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Literature review -- 3.3 Data -- 3.4 Methodology and results -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 A survey of the venture capital industry in Central and Eastern Europe -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The route of transition and the current economic environment -- 4.3 Recent developments of VC funding in CEE -- 4.4 An action plan towards a well-functioning VC market -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 5 Venture capital in European transition economies: A scoring system -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Some factors to consider -- 5.3 Results -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Recommendations for the development of a European venture capital regulatory corpus: Lessons from the U.S. -- Abstract -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Wealth creation: the final launch price and its market implications -- 6.3 A study of strategic price setting from the U.S. -- 6.4 Results.
