Objective: The objective of the article is to examine the role of foreign venture capital and foreign business angels in companies' early internationalization based on the example of Polish ICT start-ups. Research Design & Methods: We based the scientific argument on an analysis of the existing...

India has an estimated 26,000 startups, making it the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world, recording consolidated inflows of over $36 billion in the past 3 years with 26 "unicorns" - startups valued over $1 billion. The Indian startup ecosystem has expanded quite rapidly mainly through...

Small and startup IT (SSIT) firms are responsible for a lot of important IT innovations in the IT industry. Several SSIT firms are then bought by larger, more established IT companies that want to drive their innovation, add new product and service lines, or limit competition. However, because...

This research provides the first deep and empirical look into Brazil's increasing equity crowdfunding, or crowdinvest, market, and examines its peculiarities. It is a pioneering work dedicated to understanding which characteristics most impact the success of offers in the country, and whether...

One challenge that Micro and Small Industries (MSIs) face is financing. Venture capital is one of the financing options to overcome capital problems by providing financial and non-financial support. This study aims to analyze the influence of venture capital on the growth of Micro and Small...

The advent of the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, brings about both opportunities and challenges that are likely to set developed economies even farther apart from emerging economies. This book, through the perspective of researchers in the emerging markets, presents analyses on a...

This article analyzes the patterns of financing for entrepreneurial firms in Canada. We compare the predictions of major theories of entrepreneurial finance and some more recent ideas (e.g., crowdfunding-related ideas/theories) with empirical evidence. Regression and correlation analyses were...

This study addresses the types of innovation activity of SMEs (Small and medium-sized enterprises) in the European Union and its association with financing decisions. The main objective is to capture the cross-country differences in the types of innovation in SMEs and then investigate the...