There have been significant changes in the financing of early-stage innovative companies since the beginning of this decade. The importance of institutional venture capital funds' investments declined in financing startups and early-stage ventures. At the same time, alternative sources of...

Venture capital and private equity financing has become an important mechanism for the development and radical transformation of companies worldwide in recent decades. Nevertheless, the venture capital and private equity sector covers only a relatively small proportion of economic activity...

This paper examines characteristics for participation in active labor market policies assisting the unemployed in turning into entrepreneurs- among those who were registered unemployed for at least one day during 2014-15 in Hungary. Data shows that it is rather the disadvantaged unemployed who...