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Promoting Equity Flows into Smaller Businesses

In: Public Policies for Fostering Entrepreneurship

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  • Marc Cowling

    (University of Sussex)

  • Gordon Murray

    (University of Exeter, The Queen’s Drive)

  • Pete Bates

    (Mantell Building, University of Sussex Campus)

Abstract

The availability of risk capital for high-potential, young companies has been a key policy issue for government in the context of promoting economic development via the growth of innovative (new knowledge-based) small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)(Aho et al. 2006). Issues regarding the importance of risk capital to the early-growth stages of young companies have been debated widely in political and academic circles both in the UK and continental Europe (HM Treasury 1998, 2003; European Commission 2003, 2005, 2006a,b; Cressy and Olofsson 1997; Cressy 2002) since the 1980s. The US experience has provided an example and reference to watch. The conspicuous successes of new US companies that grow rapidly into positions of international dominance within the arena of new technologies and knowledge-based opportunities are widely admired.

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  • Marc Cowling & Gordon Murray & Pete Bates, 2009. "Promoting Equity Flows into Smaller Businesses," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: Rui Baptista & Joao Leitao (ed.), Public Policies for Fostering Entrepreneurship, chapter 0, pages 207-230, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-1-4419-0249-8_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0249-8_12
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    1. Cécile Carpentier & Jean-Marc Suret, 2011. "Incitatifs fiscaux dédiés aux anges investisseurs : une analyse critique des programmes instaurés dans le monde," CIRANO Working Papers 2011s-58, CIRANO.

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