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Does Venture Capital Investment Spur Employment Growth? [PDF]

open access: yes
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with ...
Neil Foster, Ansgar Belke, Rainer Fehn
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Fostering Entrepreneurial Investment Decision in Medical Technology Ventures in a Changing Business Environment

open access: yesAmfiteatru Economic, 2015
This paper presents the results obtained from a survey among public and private venture capitalists from countries which attract a large amount of venture capital investment: Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel.
Sonja Bettina Keppler   +2 more
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The impact of foreign direct investment and venture capital investment on entrepreneurship in the Republic of Serbia

open access: yesEastern Review, 2019
The subject of the research is the examination of features and significance of two modern types of investment intended for financing entrepreneurship: that is, foreign direct investment and venture capital investment.
Ivana Jolović, Alpar Lošonc
doaj   +1 more source

Large Language Model in Materials Science: Roles, Challenges, and Strategic Outlook

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping materials science. Acting as Oracle, Surrogate, Quant, and Arbiter, they now extract knowledge, predict properties, gauge risk, and steer decisions within a traceable loop. Overcoming data heterogeneity, hallucinations, and poor interpretability demands domain‐adapted models, cross‐modal data standards, and ...
Jinglan Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Valuing entrepreneurial investments: the venture capitalists' approach. [PDF]

open access: yes
Valuing high-growth, high-uncertainty firms, characterised by a unique business concept, significant growth opportunities, and/or no real positive cash flows to show the profit potential of the venture, is a major challenge faced by most venture ...
Thoen, Vincent, Lefebvre, Christian
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The price of rapid exit in venture capital-backed IPOs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper proposes an explanation for two empirical puzzles surrounding initial public offerings (IPOs). Firstly, it is well documented that IPO underpricing increases during “hot issue” periods.
Silvia Rossetto, Rossetto, Silvia
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Toward Predictable Nanomedicine: Current Forecasting Frameworks for Nanoparticle–Biology Interactions

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Predictive models successfully screen nanoparticles for toxicity and cellular uptake. Yet, complex biological dynamics and sparse, nonstandardized data limit their accuracy. The field urgently needs integrated artificial intelligence/machine learning, systems biology, and open‐access data protocols to bridge the gap between materials science and safe ...
Mariya L. Ivanova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study of criteria and success factors in the private equity and venture capital investment process and a comparison to the South African PE/VC Market

open access: yes, 2010
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-96).This study endeavors to shed more light on venture capital investment decision making process and the criteria and factors that are used to evaluate new ventures. The study will look at
Maelane, Lekale Given
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Human‐in‐the‐Loop Swarms: A Bionic Swarm Approach to Real‐World Soil Mapping

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article introduces the “Bionic Swarm,” a novel system that lowers the barriers to real‐world swarm validation by abstracting difficult hardware tasks to app‐guided human agents. We demonstrate the system's utility through the experimental validation of a geotechnical soil‐mapping swarm algorithm and show superior performance to baseline approaches
Petras Swissler   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

What determines the volume of informal venture finance investment and does it vary by gender? [PDF]

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We estimate a two-equation model to jointly determine the number of informal investors and the amount of money that they invest over the last 3 years. Our model uses data on 126,189 individuals in 21 highly developed countries in the period 2002-2006. We
Abdelfatah Ichou   +3 more
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