This report brings together findings from the case studies in Berlin and Rostock on how entrepreneurship support is organised, the activities in entrepreneurship education and start-up support, and the strategy behind. In addition, the report provides in its “fishing ideas from international...

<title/> This paper examines the role of policy in creating venture capital structures that support innovative, high growth companies. It compares the policy challenges and the emerging structures and measures in the US, Germany, Singapore, France, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK. It argues that...

This paper is an examination of the German technology transfer system in an era of globalisation. There is inherent dynamism within the system that enables it to adapt effectively to produce an innovation infrastructure that is strong. The paper describes individual institutions within the...

This paper reports on a detailed institutional study of the German technology transfer system using material from a survey of practitioners and observations of the system over a one-year period. The purpose of this research was to understand the dynamic within the German system that, despite...

This paper provides a critical review of UK government proposals to develop venture capital funds in the English regions to address the 'equity gap'. It argues that there is currently an adequate supply of equity-type funding under 250,000. The real equity gap is between the more informal,...

This report brings together findings from the case studies in Berlin and Rostock on how entrepreneurship support is organised, the activities in entrepreneurship education and start-up support, and the strategy behind. In addition, the report provides in its “fishing ideas from international...

Research and development in the German economy is internationalising: recently there has been an increase in outward DFI by German companies relative to the inward DFI of foreign-owned companies in Germany. By examining the long term trends in patents granted in the USA to the world's largest...

Research and development in the German economy is internationalising: recently there has been an increase in outward DFI by German companies relative to the inward DFI of foreign-owned companies in Germany. By examining the long term trends in patents granted in the USA to the world's largest...

For a company seeking to implement a continuous improvement (CI) strategy, research has pointed to two pertinent policy suggestions. First, it is possible to take the essence of a CI philosophy (i.e. one where the emphasis is on creating an improvement‐based learning culture in the company)...

Purpose – This paper sets out to assess the market for start‐up finance in the UK for high growth potential entrepreneurial firms. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from the UK's Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys between 2001 and 2003 to assess the scale of equity...