which attract a large amount of venture capital investment: Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. The objective is to … investigate venture capitalists’ investment criteria for medical technology ventures in the start-up or expansion phase. Since … existing research evaluated venture capitalists’ general investment criteria, the aim of this study is to provide specific …

ownership, founder incumbency, and the CVC-founder interaction on R&D investment strategies in VC-financed, technology … investment in R&D, especially with regard to the interaction between CVC investors and founder managers. We argue that CVC … ownership and founder incumbency positively affect entrepreneurial firms' R&D investment and, more importantly, that the CVC …

that founders are more likely to stick with entrepreneurship as a serial entrepreneur or as an angel investor in cases … where the founder had prior experience either in founding other startups or working for a startup, or had a 'jack …