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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

TRENDS OF THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR VENTURE FUNDING: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2016
The purpose of the paper is to explore of the global venture capital market and to reveal of its development trends. Methodology. To achieve this goal used methods: statistical analysis, forecasting method autoregression model, the calculation of the ...
Yuriy Drachuk   +2 more
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Private equity and venture capital: investment fund structures in the Czech Republic

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2011
A working private equity and venture capital market (PE/VC market) stimulates the business environment in a positive manner and impacts the level of economic growth of national economies.
Marek Zinecker
doaj   +1 more source

SAVCA 2020 Venture Capital Industry Survey

open access: yes, 2020
<p>The annual SAVCA Venture Capital (VC) Survey analyses deal activity of venture capital and similar early stage investments into mainly South African businesses.
Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Possibilities of using of the venture capital as an innovative instrument in conditions of the Slovak republic in the competence of the National Agency for Development Small and Medium Enterprises

open access: yesPolityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing, 2011
The contribution describes the venture capital as an innovative instrument used in the Slovak republic. Basic characteristic of venture capital presents its advantages and disadvantages, as well as describes the existing venture capital funds in the ...
Mária Szabóová
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Diversification: A Var and DCC Garch Approach

open access: yesКорпоративные финансы
The terms “venture capital” and “private equity” are used in a loosely interchangeable manner when capital is invested in innovative technology-driven ideas or nascent-stage/unlisted companies.
Manu Sharma
doaj   +1 more source

Moderating Factors in Distant Investment of Corporate Venture Capital

open access: yesJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2019
The role of venture capital as mediator and gatekeeper is well acknowledged and geographical barriers for open innovation have been questioned, but venture capital firms’ distant investments have been investigated only rarely.
Shinhyung Kang, JungTae Hwang
doaj   +1 more source

VENTURE INVESTMENTS AS A PROSPECTIVE DIRECTION OF ACTIVATION OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY

open access: yesGreen, Blue and Digital Economy Journal, 2020
The purpose of this article is to study the intensification of venture investment in innovation processes in Ukraine, to identify problems and promising areas of development of the venture industry. The article considers the essential characteristics of
Halyna Hrynyshyn
doaj   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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