We studied the optimal funding of the public sector for the Hi-Tech industry in the presence of short-term, cyclical, venture capital (VC) funding by constructing a decision-making model that results in the optimal governmental support and a model that accounts for the dynamics of the VC...

We hypothesize that supply and demand shifts occurred in the US venture capital (VC) industry during 1980 to 2002 and present the results of an empirical study about the temporal characteristics of the industry during that period. Our main conclusion is that the VC industry has gone under...

Marketing is attributed to be the dominant factor for the failure of the successful commercialization of a new product development. However, its funding aspects and the relation with engineering-related efforts such as the technical development and manufacturing is less studied. This report...

The valuation of high-risk technological ventures is more of an art than a science. In the absence of cash flow forecast and in view of the high uncertainty about the successful completion of the venture's Ramp;D effort, it is not possible to apply the Discounted-Cash-Flow (DCF) method, which is...

We derive a diffusive stochastic differential equation that describes the dynamics of the venture capital (VC) industry and use it to study two related issues that are concerned with the evolution of the venture capital and the high technology sectors over time. First, the short-term cyclical...

This is a top-level and short review (hopefully an eye-opener) of the factors that affect the Dollar-Euro exchange rate in the near future. It seems that the US is better positioned, than the Euro Zone, to face the current illiquidity crisis. Moreover, over the period of this crisis it is...

The Time-to-Market in the presence of a window of opportunity is analyzed using a probabilistic model; i.e.; a model where the completion time of new product development is a random variable characterized by a gamma distribution. Two cases are considered: the first, a case where the discounted...

The basic Lucas model for risky Ramp;D projects is revisited. New solutions for optimal expenditures are explored by exploiting the merits of the theory of differential equations. After applying the calculus of variations, a nonlinear differential equation is presented whose solution provides...

The rapid development of a new comparative advantage in the hi-tech sector in Israel in the period 1995-2005 provides an example of a new form of foreign direct investment (FDI). Unlike traditional FDI, this new form of international investment, that we dubbed financial foreign direct investment...

The rapid development of a new comparative advantage in the hi-tech sector in Israel in the period 1995-2005 provides an example of a new form of foreign direct investment (FDI). Unlike traditional FDI, this new form of international investment that we dubbed financial foreign direct investment...