Innovative firms with good ideas may still struggle to fine-tune them to the stage where they can attract outside funding. We conduct a five-country randomized experiment that tests the impact of an investment readiness program. Firms then pitched their ideas to independent judges. The program...

Many innovative start-ups and small and medium-size enterprises have good ideas, but do not have these ideas fine-tuned to the stage where they can attract outside funding. Investment readiness programs attempt to help firms to become ready to attract and accept outside equity funding through a...

This paper seeks to analyse the impact of FDI promotions on the various investments being made in the Indian Economic sectors in terms of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Inflow. The promotion is done for various sectors of the Indian Economy and analysis is done to understand the FDI inflow into...