Venture capital, angel financing, and crowdfunding have evolved and matured in the
entrepreneurial finance market. These market developments have also been accompanied …

This paper reviews the evidence on financing technology-based small firms (TBSFs) in
Europe. European TBSFs finance new investments by relying primarily on internal funds …

Digital entrepreneurship highly relies on external sources of financing to foster growth. This
study aims at investigating how angel groups and venture capital (VC) funds affect growth of …

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are a rapidly growing phenomenon wherein entrepreneurial
ventures raise funds for the development of blockchain-based businesses. Although they …

In this paper, we jointly analyze the effects of the human capital of founders and access to
venture capital (VC) financing on the growth of 439 Italian new technology-based firms …

The financial and innovation literature generally claims that venture capital (VC) investments
spur the growth of new technology-based firms (NTBFs). However, it has proved difficult so …

This research article explores the role of institutional innovation intermediaries in
accelerating the commercialisation of (clean) technologies. Drawing on the finance and …

Why do new technology-based firms (NTBFs) cooperate? Starting from Teece's [Teece, DJ,
1986. Profiting from technological innovation: implications for integration, collaboration …

We study the investment patterns of different types of venture capital (VC) investors in
Europe: independent VC, corporate VC, bank-affiliated VC and governmental VC. We rely …

This paper aims to shed new light on start-up financing of new technology-based firms
(NTBFs) and the existence of credit constraints that may negatively affect their activity. For …