Crowdfunding is big business. The idea of financing projects or businesses with small
contributions from large numbers of people is catching on in a big way and now accounts for …

M ason C. and P ierrakis Y. Venture capital, the regions and public policy: the United
Kingdom since the post-2000 technology crash, Regional Studies. The geography of venture …

This report examines an innovative new model of providing funding to projects and businesses,
the Crowdfunding model. This new form of financing that allows people or businesses to …

Online peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending, where individual investors provide unsecured
loans directly to individual business borrowers without the intermediation of banks, has …

This paper examines the link between publicly backed venture capital funds and business
innovation in the UK venture capital market. In examining this relationship, the research …

This paper empirically examines the development of social networks among venture capitalists
and other professionals of the regional innovation ecosystem. Using an online survey of …

As banks retrench in the wake of the financial crisis, small businesses have found it increasingly
hard to access the finance they need to grow. But there is some cause for optimism. …

High growth, innovative companies are disproportionately important for economic growth in
the UK. Venture capital is an important source of finance for these companies, one of the few …

Tiago Botelho, University of East Anglia Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Dublin City University Javed
Ghulam Hussain, Birmingham City University Yannis Pierrakis, Universitat Internacional de …

We investigate the role of entrepreneurs’ human capital on the potential of newly created
ventures to receive equity funding from Accelerators and Business Angels using a resource-…