Purpose: This study aims to analyze the contribution of business angels (BAs), defined as wealthy individuals who provide risk capital to entrepreneurial firms without family connections, in Estonia, an emerging country in Eastern Europe. Design/methodology/approach: This study compared the data...

This study seeks to examine the relationship between the structure of the start-up capital and the survival of companies. The study considers the structure of the start-up capital as the share of the managerial capital (share of the capital held by the entrepreneur and his family), the share of...

Scholar research seems to confirm that the type of funding of a university spin-off venture influences these survival chances. This study aims to investigate whether the basic type of funding used for young university spin-offs influences the survival chances. The reasoning is that screening by...