Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of foreign venture capital (VC)/private equity (PE) ownership and other types of foreign investors on the access to external finance, in terms of credit provision, by the independent high-tech small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the...

In modern economies, the presence of an innovative environment that promotes the research and the business structure, enhancing the skills of the individual, is considered a basic condition for the competitiveness of a Country. The paper aims to explore the effectiveness and the experience of...