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Latest academic and industry research papers on venture capital.
International Review of Economics & Finance
Venture capital participation, mitigation of financial constraints, and disruptive innovation in enterprises: A comparative study based on ownership …
Venture capital participation significantly boosts disruptive innovation in Chinese publicly listed firms (2010–2023) by alleviating financial constraints, with stronger effects observed in state-owned enterprises and companies led by financially experienced executives.
2026
Global Business …
Venture Capital and Firm Performance Post-Initial Public Offering: Evidence from India
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2026
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Management Incentives and Public-Private Delegated Fund Performance in the Venture Capital Industry
Examines how management incentives (management fees, co-investment ratios, and performance-based pay) used by Taiwan's National Development Fund affect venture capital institutions' investment returns and policy outcomes using DEA and generalized structural equation modeling on 2007–2022 co-investment data.
2026
Future Business Journal
Venture capital as Institutional Infrastructure: Modelling the pathways to scalability and competitiveness in high-growth ventures in Uganda
New research reveals how venture capital is fueling innovation and scaling high-impact firms across East Africa—unlocking value creation, jobs, and regional economic growth while highlighting tailored VC models and policy steps to strengthen local ecosystems.
2026
Journal of Business …
Founders for hire? The role of venture studios in breaking the individual-opportunity nexus
Venture studios systematically create and validate startup ideas internally before recruiting founders, challenging the traditional individual–opportunity nexus by shifting entrepreneurial agency from lone founders to organization-driven processes.
2026
IIP: International Multidisciplinary Research …
Financial Entrepreneurship–Role of Government Schemes, Banks, and Venture Capital
Analysis of how government schemes (e.g., MUDRA, Start-Up India), banks, and venture capital influence financial entrepreneurship in India, identifying strengths and gaps and recommending coordinated policies, financial literacy, and tailored support to boost inclusive startup growth.
2026
Applied Economics
Venture capital and corporate digital transformation: evidence from China
Analyzes how venture capital investment accelerates corporate digital transformation in Chinese A-share firms (2015–2022), showing VC promotes digitization by easing external financing constraints, enabling collaborative innovation, supplying patient capital, and reducing supply-chain risk—effects strongest in large, competitive, less digitally developed regions and firms with financially or R&D-experienced top teams.
2026
Small Business Economics
Government venture capital and financial constraints: growth and credit effects among Swedish SMEs: R. Svensson
Analyzes how government venture capital in Asia affects startup and small-firm performance and growth, including the role of regional constraints and interactions with external funding.
2026
A Data-Driven Analysis of Venture Capital Activity …
India's Funding Winter: Correction or Structural Shift? A Data-Driven Analysis of Venture Capital Activity (2019-2025)
Analyzes whether India’s sharp 2022–2024 venture capital downturn was a cyclical correction driven by global monetary tightening or a structural shift in the startup ecosystem, using stage- and sector-level data and VC practitioner insights to show a hybrid outcome with a pronounced late-stage capital gap.
2026
… and Management Journal
Innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial venture capital: evidence from European countries
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2026
Journal of Global …
System dynamics of performance evaluation of venture capital funds with an improvement approach
Analyzes how venture capitalists' reputations influence and potentially alleviate firms' financial constraints by affecting access to funding for entrepreneurial and early-stage ventures.
2026
Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation
Venture Capital Promotes an Increase in Clinical Trials for Medical Enterprises
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2026
Globalisation, Societies …
When public policy 'fails' and venture capital 'saves' education: Edtech investors as economic and political actors
Analysis of how venture capital Edtech investors act as economic and political actors—shaping the education technology industry through investment practices, legitimizing authority with expertise and social impact narratives, and building networks that influence educational futures.
2026
Journal of Business Ethics
Navigating the ambiguity of impact investing: How impact venture capitalists access new markets, founders, and capital
A mixed-methods analysis reveals who loses in 'win-win' impact investing by uncovering impact-risk, ambiguity, and ethical tensions that leave certain stakeholders disadvantaged and outlining implications for investors and policy.
2026
… Entrepreneur: Journal of Business Startups and …
Access to Venture Capital and Innovation Output in Early-Stage Startups
Analysis shows that venture-backed early-stage technology startups produce substantially higher innovation output—measured by product development, patent activity, and market expansion—highlighting the strategic role of VC financing in driving innovation-led growth.
2026
… , and the Moral Architecture of Venture Capital and …
The Algorithmic General Partner: Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Philosophy, and the Moral Architecture of Venture Capital and Private Equity
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2026
Venture Capital
From angel investors to venture capital: fundraising pathways and financial viability in professional esports teams
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2026
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The determinants of a successful venture capital market: analysing economic, stock and bond market influences in the US and EU
Analysis of US and EU venture capital (2007–2023) finds US VC inflows are pro-cyclical and tied to GDP and stock markets, while EU VC is detached from real-economy indicators; bond market weakness depresses VC across both regions and inflation has boosted inflows since 2014, underscoring the need for deeper EU market integration.
2026
Journal of Contemporary Academic …
The Influence of Innovativeness in Attracting Venture Capital Investment Among Tech SMEs in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Analysis shows that innovativeness significantly boosts venture capital attraction for tech SMEs in Nasarawa State, Nigeria—higher innovation levels strongly correlate with larger investment amounts (r≈0.87–0.91, p<0.01), underscoring the value of tailored innovation frameworks and training to drive funding and growth.
2026
Strategic Change
Gatekeepers of the future: the role of corporate venture capital in corporate artificial intelligence adoptions
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2026
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A Systematic Review of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) and Independent Venture Capital (IVC) Performance
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2026
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Scaling sustainability: how venture capital shapes impact-driven startups
New research shows VC terms and governance — not founder values alone — determine whether sustainability startups stay mission-aligned, and that written non-negotiables plus outcome-linked KPIs can prevent mission drift.
2026
International Journal of …
Unpacking innovation in technology-based entrepreneurship: the role of venture capital, networks and research capacity in an emerging economy
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2026
International Journal of Global …
Venture Capital Value Creation and Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Indian Digital Startups
2026
… Analysis & Strategic Management
Corporate venture capital (CVC) investments and digital transformation: analysis of moderating effects based on industry level
This paper analyzes the moderating effects of industry level on corporate venture capital investments and digital transformation.
2026
Applied Economics
Opening public data and entrepreneurial activity: Evidence from China
Open Government Data platforms in Chinese cities significantly boost entrepreneurial activity by attracting venture capital, fostering talent, and lowering transaction costs, according to research covering 2008-2021.
2026
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Unveiling the key determinants of cleantech venture capital investment in India: A study using necessary condition and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis
2026
Venture Capital
How does digital empowerment affect venture capital: an empirical study of Chinese manufacturing listed corporations in Growth Enterprise Market
2026
International journal of …
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs
New qualitative research with 32 experienced founders reveals three core dimensions—negotiation competencies, power tactics, and negotiation style—that shape how entrepreneurs successfully negotiate venture capital funding and offers actionable strategies for founders and trainers to improve funding outcomes.
2025
Venture …
Climate issues in portfolio investment decisions: a comparison of Private equity and venture capital
Analysis of survey responses from 479 venture capital and 215 private equity fund managers comparing motives and strategies for integrating climate considerations into portfolio investment decisions—finding PE driven more by external stakeholders and performance, VC more by product differentiation, and screening strategies the most commonly used.
2025
Strategic …
Leveraging capital networks for entrepreneurial success
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2025
Finance and Society
From blitzkrieg to blitzscaling: Assessing the impact of venture capital dynamics on military norms
Explores how venture capital's blitzscaling growth model is reshaping military procurement, operations, and norms, while raising ethical and societal concerns about VC-backed AI and drone technologies for communities caught in conflict.
2025
Spatial Economic Analysis
Geographical distance, investment strategies and performance of venture capital: evidence from Chinese enterprises
Analyzing Chinese venture capital deals, the paper finds greater geographical distance between lead VCs and portfolio firms is associated with higher investment performance as distant VCs adopt more conservative strategies—stricter screening, syndication, and staged financing—to improve exit success.
2025
Contemporary Journal of Social Science Review
Venture Capital and Macroeconomic Performance: An Empirical Assessment of Growth and Employment Dynamics
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2025
2025 Tenth …
Optimizing Venture Capital Allocation with Deep Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis and Financial Data Fusion Techniques
Using deep-learning sentiment analysis and financial-data fusion, the paper proposes a framework to optimize venture capital allocation by combining market sentiment with quantitative financial signals.
2025
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… has evolved into a formidable mechanism for collective financing, challenging traditional funding sources such as bank loans, venture capital, and private equity with …
Using machine learning (XGBoost and LSTM) and two novel Italian datasets, the paper models investor behavior and predicts the success of equity and lending crowdfunding campaigns to improve project selection and platform decision-making.
2025
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Designing an interpretative structural model of factors affecting venture capital in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Science and Technology Park of Islamic Azad …
Using a mixed-methods ISM approach, the paper identifies six key factors—managerial characteristics, project nature, environmental conditions, support mechanisms, investment experience, and networking—that shape venture capital investment in the entrepreneurship ecosystem of the Islamic Azad University Science and Technology Park.
2025
… Conference on Data …
Initial Coin Offerings and Decentralised Finance: Roadmap Towards New Age Venture Capital Financing with Cryptocurrency
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2025
Intellectual Economics
What is the impact of country's venture capital investment on its labour productivity?
Empirical analysis of EU-25 countries assessing how venture capital investment influences national labour productivity—using linear, non-linear, and lagged regression models—and finding an overall insignificant effect.
2025
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity
Venture Capital Investments in Cleantech Startups
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2025
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Venture capital exit after venture IPO
Analyzes how venture capitalists time and structure their exits following portfolio firms' IPOs and the implications of those exit decisions for investor returns and firm performance.
2025
Sustainable Futures
Emerging technologies in renewable energy: Risk analysis and major investment strategies
Exploring how emerging technologies and novel energy storage solutions can scale renewable energy deployment, the paper analyzes risks and investment strategies—highlighting funding gaps, VC risk frameworks, and adjusted success metrics needed to achieve zero-emission cleantech commercialization.
2025
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Central Angels: How Angel Investor Network Position Influences Venture Capital
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2025
Warsaw Forum of …
Venture Capital as a Growth Catalyst: Founders' Perceptions from German Early-Stage High-Tech Start-Ups
Exploring how German early-stage high-tech founders view venture capital as a growth catalyst, the paper finds VCs excel at easing financial constraints and boosting market visibility but often fall short on strategic advisory, organizational professionalization, and expectation alignment.
2025
At-Tamwil: Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance
Partnership Agreements in Venture Capital-Based Sharia Business Models
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2025
International Journal of Islamic and Middle …
Mapping an Islamic venture capital setup using foresight-based social construction approach
A foresight-driven, stakeholder-informed blueprint for designing an Islamic venture capital (IVC) setup—mapped through social construction tools and multi-stakeholder workshops to outline stages, governance, and outreach strategies for supporting Muslim entrepreneurs in a developing Islamic economy.
2025
Finance Research Letters
Impact of venture capital on total factor productivity: Insights from enterprise-investment institution factor flows
Analysis of China's listed firms (2016–2022) shows venture capital—especially state-backed and corporate/industrial investors—significantly boosts firms' total factor productivity by increasing R&D intensity and innovation, with implications for investment structure and economic efficiency.
2025
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Venture capital investments in gastroenterology from 2012 to 2022: a window into the future of gastroenterology
Analysis of venture capital investments in gastroenterology from 2012–2022 reveals rapid growth to $33.34B across 3,419 deals (CAGR 15.7%), with pharmaceuticals and biotechnology capturing 64.6% of funding and a 141% surge in pharma/technology investment from 2019–2020, underscoring accelerating investor interest in GI biotech, pharma, and devices.
2025
Jurnal Ilmiah …
The effect of business capital and product innovation on business performance in human resource management
2025
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The Impact of Corporate Venture Capital CVC Investment Strategy on the Innovation Performance of the Parent Company
2025
Turkish Studies-Economics …
Fueling the Future: The Impact of Venture Capital on AI Compute Start-Ups and Sustainable Innovation.
Venture capital investments specifically targeting AI compute and sustainability significantly boost the formation of AI compute start-ups, according to research analyzing data from 11 countries between 2012 and 2024.
2025
… Capital Operations: An Empirical Analysis
Artificial intelligence in venture capital operations: An empirical analysis
This paper empirically analyzes the adoption and impact of artificial intelligence within venture capital firms, noting its increasing integration into business operations since 2022.
2025
The Palgrave encyclopedia of private equity
Venture capital and corporate governance of entrepreneurial ventures
Venture capital significantly influences the corporate governance of entrepreneurial ventures by supplying financial resources, strategic guidance, and expertise throughout their organizational life cycle.
2025
European Journal of Sustainable …
Investor behavior in venture capital investment: an analytical study of Georgian and Central-Eastern European startup markets
This research paper analyzes venture capital investor behaviors and preferences within the startup ecosystems of Georgia and Central Europe, comparing their distinct investment drivers and risk tolerances.
2025
… Innovation & Regulatory …
The Inflation Reduction Act's impact upon early-stage venture capital investments
The Inflation Reduction Act has prompted a shift in early-stage venture capital, favoring large molecule drug development over small molecules targeting the Medicare-aged population due to perceived lower investment risk.
2025
Research in International …
Decentralized autonomous organizations: The new global digital venture capital
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are emerging as a new global digital venture capital model, with this research exploring their differences from traditional VC funds and their impact on the investment landscape.
2025
The journal of technology transfer
Public grants beneficiaries and venture capital-backed firms: a tale of two funding strategies: A. Bellucci et al.
This research explores the distinct characteristics and funding strategies of firms benefiting from public grants versus venture capital, finding that VC-backed companies tend to be more innovative, while grant recipients are often smaller and older.
2025
SHS Web of Conferences
Gender Diversity and Venture Capital Sustainability
New research indicates that the impact of gender diversity on venture capital sustainability is not uniform, but rather varies across different companies within the industry.
2025
Research in International …
Insights for sustainable business practices: Comparative impact of independent and corporate venture capital funding on financial and environmental performance
2025
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Venture capital start-up selection
2025
Romanian Economic and Business Review
ACCELERATORS AS CATALYSTS: HELPING ROMANIAN STARTUPS EXPAND THROUGH WESTERN VENTURE CAPITAL
This analysis explores how war is linguistically defined and understood, examining the profound impact of language on our perception of conflict and its societal implications.
2025
Business Horizons
Venture studios beyond the hype: Key challenges and a way forward
This research decodes the venture studio model by examining its core design choices and challenges, such as unclear missions and misaligned incentives, to foster standardization and stakeholder alignment in this rapidly emerging area of venture creation.
2025
arXiv preprint arXiv …
From Limited Data to Rare-event Prediction: LLM-powered Feature Engineering and Multi-model Learning in Venture Capital
This research presents a framework that uses LLM-powered feature engineering and a multi-model learning architecture to predict rare, high-impact outcomes, particularly in venture capital, by analyzing limited and noisy early-stage data.
2025
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Unlocking Venture Capital Access for Women Entrepreneurs: Practical Strategies to Overcome the Gender Gap in Startup Funding
This research investigates the gender gap in venture capital funding for women entrepreneurs in Sweden, exploring disparities in pitch processes and proposing strategies for investors and entrepreneurs to improve access.
2025
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Role of private equity and venture capital in hospital networks
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2025
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Financial performance analysis of pre-and post-listing of a venture capital backed company quick heal technologies limited
A study on Quick Heal Technologies Limited's financial performance before and after its IPO reveals improved operational efficiency post-listing, while profitability and liquidity remained stable, indicating that the IPO primarily boosted long-term scalability and market credibility.
2025
Journal of Banking Regulation
Regulating Banks' Engagement in Venture Capital: Evidence from Taiwan
This research examines how banks' venture capital engagement affects financial stability, using evidence from Taiwan, and proposes that regulated VC participation can enhance portfolio diversification and reduce default risk, challenging the rationale for strict separation between commercial and investment banking.
2025
Future Business Journal
Unveiling venture capital's disruptive power; fuelling innovation and economic growth in high-impact firms in East Africa
This research explores how venture capital, supported by public policies, fuels innovation and economic growth in East African high-impact firms, transforming them into industry leaders.
2025
SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference
Emerging Venture Capital: Trends in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
This analysis explores emerging venture capital trends in the low-carbon economy transition, detailing investment patterns, sectoral shifts towards hydrogen and battery storage, and the benefits of diversified corporate venture strategies.
2025
International Journal of Engineering …
Venture capital and start-up financing: Driving innovation in the US economy
This paper explores how venture capital and start-up funding drive innovation, technological competitiveness, and job creation within the U.S. economy.
2025
… Theory and Practice
Trademarks and Entrepreneurial Firm Success: Theory and Evidence from Venture Capital Investments in Private Firms
2025
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Market Timing in Venture Capital: Evidence from a Quantitative Analysis of US Deals
2025
International Journal of …
EVALUATING INNOVATION IN EQUITY INVESTMENT DECISIONS: INSIGHTS FROM VENTURE CAPITAL, PRIVATE EQUITY AND EQUITY FUND PERSPECTIVES
2025
Applied Economics Letters
Youth entrepreneurship and credit access in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Uganda's youth venture capital fund
2025
Small Business Economics
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital: Torben Klarl
2025
Finance Research Letters
Venture Capital Shareholding, Digital Transformation, and the Economic Resilience of Listed Enterprises
2025
International journal of …
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs
2025
… and Engineering Sciences
Proposing a Strategy for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in Venture Capital Funds
2025
2025 IEEE International …
The Role of Governmental Support in Strengthening Venture Capital Ecosystems in Developing Economies: Case of Kazakhstan
2025
Annals of Operations Research
Identifying ICO scam risk with PU learning based on features engineering of venture capital
2025
Sharia Oikonomia Law …
Shariah-Compliant Venture Capital: Exploring Financing Models for Startups in Indonesia
Investigating Shariah-Compliant Venture Capital (SCVC) in Indonesia, this paper examines its potential as a startup financing model, its adherence to Islamic principles, and its impact on growth alongside identified challenges.
2025
International Journal of Business Innovation and …
Covenant prioritisation in Indian venture capital partnership agreement with entrepreneur
This study prioritizes covenants within Indian venture capital partnership agreements, revealing that cash flow rights are deemed most important by investors.
2025
Journal of Management & …
How do innovative internet tech startups attract venture capital financing?
Innovative internet tech startups attract venture capital by leveraging factors beyond just entrepreneurial experience, with industrial experience, political background, market-entry order, and business group affiliation proving crucial for investor appeal.
2025
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The role of Initial investment Stage and Venture Capital Reputation in Green Venture Success
This paper examines whether green ventures are as successful as traditional ventures, considering the timing of initial investment and the venture capital firm's reputation.
2025
Research-Technology …
How Investor–Investee Relatedness Matters in Corporate Venture Capital Investment
This research paper investigates how the relatedness of technology and market knowledge within corporate venture capital portfolios affects the innovation performance of corporate investors.
2025
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The Impact of Tax Treaties on Attracting Foreign Private Capital in the Venture Capital Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Finland and Sweden
This research paper analyzes tax treaties between Finland and Sweden, examining their impact on foreign venture capital investors.
2025
… : Empirical Studies for …
Startup success factor A Meta Analysis of venture capital backed companies
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2025
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Open data-driven strategies for Venture Capital firms: Easing decision-making for investments: Leveraging public data to optimize Investment Decisions
This research explores data-driven strategies for Venture Capital firms, focusing on leveraging public data and machine learning to optimize investment decisions in startups.
2025
Venture & Innovation Journal
AI-DRIVEN STARTUPS IN VENTURE ECOSYSTEM: POTENTIAL, ETHICS, AND GLOBAL REGULATORY CHALLENGES
The research paper comprehensively examines the dynamics of AI startup growth in the global investment landscape, ethical principles in AI development, and challenges of cross-border regulatory systems.
2025
Finance Research Letters
The Impact of Early-Stage Venture Capital on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Enterprises
This research paper investigates the positive effects of early-stage venture capital on innovation and entrepreneurship within Chinese enterprises from 2010 to 2023, considering regional and equity balance differences.
2025
IET Conference Proceedings CP924
Data-driven investment in 2023: venture capital dynamics
This paper explores venture capital dynamics in 2023, specifically within the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Fintech, and Cybersecurity sectors, to understand how efficiently funding is converted into market value.
2025
Nepalese Journal of Finance
Impact of Venture Capital on Startup Success and Economic Growth in Nepal
2025
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Venture Investment Return and Its Influencing Factors Analysis
2025
International …
The Influence of Venture Capital on the Evolution of Payment Strategies in Mergers and Acquisitions: An In-Depth Literature Analysis
2025
Research in Globalization
Asymmetric effects of venture capital on environmental sustainability in OECD nations
2025
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The role of venture capital funds in dissemination and development of innovation in Canada
2025
International journal of …
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs
That paper examines how board gender diversity affects corporate tax avoidance, using a global sample.
2025
Contemporary Journal of Social …
Venture Capital and Macroeconomic Performance: An Empirical Assessment of Growth and Employment Dynamics
The research paper empirically assesses the impact of venture capital investments on macroeconomic performance, specifically GDP growth and unemployment, across 13 countries from 2014 to 2021.
2025
Venture Capital
Venture capital and environmental information disclosure by small and medium-sized enterprises in China: a stakeholder theory perspective
This paper analyzes the impact of venture capital institutions on environmental information disclosure by their portfolio companies from the perspective of stakeholder theory.
2025
Digital Repository of Theses-SSBM Geneva
Investigating the Impact of Venture Capital on te Success of Construction Sector SMEs in the UK
This research paper investigates how venture capital impacts the success and growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operating in the construction sector in the UK, exploring the opinions of financial experts regarding venture capital's influence on these businesses.
2025
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