This paper investigates the internal versus external financing decisions among 1900 early stage privately held UK firms in 1996-1997. We study the factors that affect rejection rates in applications for outside finance among the different types of investors, taking into account the...

In this paper we investigate the incidence of high technology acquisitions using a large international sample of acquisitions by public high technology firms. Controlling for firms’ financial characteristics, we examine the impact of the following innovation- related factors on the propensity...

The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial innovation in emerging economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from China, it finds that collaboration with domestic universities have played a significant role in...

This paper examines growth and survival amongst quoted and unquoted U.K. companies in the period 1975-85 and compares the results with earlier U.K. and U.S. studies. An examination of death rates shows that smaller companies had higher death rates but the largest and smallest companies were...