Financial access is considered a crucial element of entrepreneurship. Much of the literature
focuses on how individual actors demand or supply finance, but rarely within the context of …

Business angels play a critical role in the creation of an entrepreneurial climate. However,
measuring business angel investment activity on either a cross-sectional or time series basis …

Early research on business angels recognized a couple of methodological obstacles that
significantly have hindered knowledge accumulation about the phenomenon. In this article …

A major focus of applied research on venture capital concerns the 'equity gap'–in other
words, the lack of availability of small amounts of finance. In the case of formal (or …

The debate on patient capital, particularly in the varieties of capitalism literature,
concentrates on institutions and public markets. In this paper, we take an entrepreneurial …

Can you imagine what it must have been like for Henry Ford to find backers for his
entrepreneurial dream more than a century ago? Finding an individual with cash to invest …

Entrepreneurial ecosystem theory can be described as a continuation of traditional cluster
theory and regional innovation system theory, the difference being that entrepreneurial …

This paper presents hypotheses and a novel examination of the influence of a set of
conditional factors concerning regional industries, startup culture, ecosystem collaboration …

This is the third volume of the Edward Elgar Publishing book series 'Handbooks in Venture
Capital'. 1 This volume focuses on Business Angels (BAs), that is,'high net worth individuals …

This study explores individual and country level environmental drivers of informal
'seed'investment. We examine four types of informal investors based on business ownership …