Based on a database of 200 listed firms from the Growth Enterprise Market of China, this paper employs regression …

/methodology/approach: The research is based on a survey of 204 SMEs in the Liaoning province of China, which includes entrepreneurial … area of China.If the target is expanded to other areas, different results may come out. Second, there may be measurement …

-up firms over the period 2007-2009, we find that high-tech startups are less likely to use bank finance and face more … difficulties in raising bank finance than low-tech start-ups. We find that external credit scores do affect the availability of …-tech start-ups than low-tech start-ups. Start-ups that have their main relation with a small bank use more bank finance and …