This paper reviews the existing literature on venture capital and private equity. The paper
emphasises the importance of examining venture capital in the light of recent developments …

In assessing new business proposals, venture capitalists rely on their own implicit theories
(beliefs) about the attributes that a potentially successful business should possess. From …

Despite growing interest in venture capital, there is a paucity of information on the rate of
return to these investments and the limited research that is available refers almost entirely to …

Using two complementary theoretical perspectives, we develop hypotheses regarding the
determinants of the return required by venture capitalists and test them on a sample of over …

This paper by the editors of Venture Capital has three objectives. First, it outlines the
reasons why this is a particularly opportune time to launch a new journal on venture capital …

This paper is a review and critique of the promising area of international entrepreneurship
based on twenty years of academic research covering 150 empirical and conceptual …

DR. RUSSELL M. KNIGHT IS WITH THE University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada. This paper describes a cross-cultural survey of international venture capitalists to …

The principal goal of this monograph is to provide an overview of relevant aspects and
research findings pertaining to the period after the venture capital firm (also known as …

This paper attempts to understand what drives Japanese venture capital (JVC) fund
managers to select either active managerial monitoring or portfolio diversification to manage …

Venture capital has proven to be an essential resource for economic growth, especially in
some technological clusters. The focus is on the way the venture capitalist makes the …