The factors that influence the ultimate level of success or failure of systems development projects have received considerable attention in the academic literature. However, despite the existence of a ‘best practice’ literature many projects still fail. The record of the National Health...

The UK government's 'Third Mission' for Higher Education (2000) encourages universities to teach entrepreneurship to 'STEM' students (those studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics), in part to support the technology transfer agenda. Technology-based entrepreneurship education...

Government-backed loan schemes have been introduced in manycountries to enable small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) to haveaccess to funding at a reasonable cost. This paper focuses on theoperation of the Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC) in Malaysia. Amodel to determine the utilisation of...

Governments across the globe are increasingly utilizing credit guaranteeschemes to support SMEs. This article fills a gap in the academic literaturefor developing countries by reviewing the effectiveness of the New PrincipalGuarantee Scheme (NPGS) offered by the Credit Guarantee Corporation(CGC)...

Grahame Boocock and Margaret Woods are Lecturers in Banking and Finance, andFinancial Management, respectively at Loughborough University Business School,England. The paper examines how venture fund managers select their investeecompanies, by exploring the evaluation criteria and the decision...

The importance of small firms for economic development has been recognisedacross the globe. Most governments are aware that smaller enterprises faceproblems not experienced by their larger counterparts, and have taken steps toprovide financial assistance. This article compares the experiences of...

The articles presented in this thesis give new insights into the funding of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in both Malaysia and the UK, based on exceptional access to the SME community and financial bodies serving SMEs. Seven core papers comprise: two overviews of SME funding in the...

Government-backed loan schemes have been introduced in many countries to enablesmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to have access to funding at a reasonablecost. This paper evaluates the schemes offered in Malaysia by the Credit GuaranteeCorporation (CGC). The introduction emphasises the...

Germany is a reluctant supporter of the EU funds which are being used in the ‘bailout' of Ireland, and it insists on strict ‘austerity' conditions, concerned about risk and moral hazard.However, through its central bank, Germany is lending €325bn (December 2010) to other central banks in...

Since September 2015, the European Central Bank has been publishing Target2 balances of the eurozone national central banks. But this presents an incomplete picture of intra-eurosystem debts because it does not include those arising from the issue of banknotes.The ECB also plays down the...