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Are CEE states successful as venture capitalists?
Karsai, Judit - 2015
resources. The strengthening of public activities is mainly due to the new type of equity schemes introduced in the European …. However, the greatest risk of public equity schemes, i.e. the crowding out effect on private investors, is missing in the CEE …
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The startup environment and funding activity in India
David, Dharish; Gopalan, Sasidaran; Ramachandran, Suma - 2020
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...
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Financing technology-based small firms in Europe : a review of the empirical evidence
Revest, Valérie; Sapio, Sandro - 2009
wake of the Internet bubble crash; 4) public venture capital and R&D tax incentives have positively affected high …-tech firms, but more research is needed on the forms of public support and on their evaluation. -- Technology-based small firms … ; capital structure ; venture capital ; high-tech stock markets ; public support …
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Is Venture Capital the Source of Financing for Micro-Enterprises?
Prohorovs, Anatolijs - 2015
The current article examines the issue of financing the micro-enterprises of Latvia by venture capital funds. It considers the number of applications submitted by enterprises to venture capital funds, the number of investments and the amount of the financing granted to enterprises in general and...
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The scientific output of a database on commercialized patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by inventors and small firms with a remarkably high response...
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SB IPOs and IPO anomalies : an empirical analysis of the small firm uniqueness hypothesis
Brau, James C.; Carpenter, C. Troy - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 16 (2013) 2, pp. 75-96
The purpose of this paper is to provide a direct test of the small-firm uniqueness hypothesis advanced by Ang (1991). We do this by using the 5B-IPO program of the SEC as our instrument to define a small firm. Having identified small firms, we test the three IPO anomalies to see if small firms...
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Understanding the True Potential of Hybrid Financing Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs
Martin, Maximilian - 2013
Over the past thirty years, a number of social entrepreneurs have managed to create fairly large social enterprises. Properly run and scaled, they can generate sufficient cash flow to support debt financing at manageable levels of risk and, depending on their business model and legal form, also...
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Assessing and Measuring the Equity Gap and the Equity Requirements for Innovative SMEs
Gualandri, Elisabetta - 2009
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The Leasing Decisions of Small, Privately Held Firms
Cotei, Carmen - 2017
We analyze the impact of firm's asset uniqueness and its growth opportunities on the leasing decisions of U.S. startups. To test our hypotheses, we use a unique dataset provided by the Kauffman Foundation. Our results show that startups in the high-technology sector have a lower propensity to...
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Credit Rationing, Signaling by Risk-Bearing, Flexibility Theory and Other Theories of Financing for Entrepreneurial Firms
Miglo, Anton - 2018
Flexibility theory of capital structure, credit rationing, and stage-financing theory are consistent with many patterns of financing of entrepreneurial or small/medium size enterprises (SME). Tax theory of capital structure does not seem to play a significant role for SMEs as opposite to large...
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