The objective of this paper is to examine and analyze the differences between Venture Capital development in Macedonia and several Central and Eastern Europe countries, to determine the reasons, and hence extract certain conclusions that will serve as a guideline in Macedonia's venture capital...

Access to capital is crucial for small and emerging businesses, enabling them to sustain growth, foster innovation, and create job opportunities. While venture capital is often sought, other funding options such as equity crowdfunding, Regulation A issuances, and Regulation D offerings present...

This paper examines venture capital investments' development in selected Central and Eastern European countries. We determine the differences in the level of development and the reasons, and we offer conclusions that can serve as a guideline in Macedonia's and other CEE countries' venture...

Spain has chronically low productivity growth, which undermines its ability to generate higher living standards. Important contributors to low productivity growth are the misallocation of capital to low productivity firms and under-investment in knowledge-based capital. To foster a better...

The purpose of the study was to assess factors affecting access to finance by small and medium enterprises in Zambia with a focus on Kitwe based small and medium enterprises. The research was quantitative in its approach. An online questionnaire was distributed to Small and Medium Enterprises...

The entire venture capital sector of Central and Eastern Europe is characterised by the increased weight of state resources. The strengthening of public activities is mainly due to the new type of equity schemes introduced in the European Union's 2007 to 2013 programming period, which allowed...

Entrepreneurship is essential to job creation and to productivity growth and therefore is an important matter for government policy. However, policymakers face a difficult challenge because successful growth for a few firms-which cannot easily be identified in advance-is accompanied by...

India has an estimated 26,000 startups, making it the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world, recording consolidated inflows of over $36 billion in the past 3 years with 26 "unicorns" - startups valued over $1 billion. The Indian startup ecosystem has expanded quite rapidly mainly through...

Using panel data models and two research sub-samples composed of smaller and larger VC-backed, this study seeks to analyze the relationship between investment and internal cash flows. The results indicate that the investment sensitivity to internal cash flows is greater in larger than in the...