<title>Abstract</title> We address the venture capital financing issue from the firm's perspective. Using survey data for 110 new technology-based firms (NTBFs) in the Irish software sector, we assess the extent to which five human capital and three other variables determine the firm's use of venture capital....

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Using a sample comprising 117 Irish software companies, we examine the capital structure of new technology-based firms. Consistent with the findings on financing for other small business, internal funds are the most important source of funding in new technology-based firms. However, contrary to...

The commercialisation of scientific knowledge has become a primary objective for universities worldwide. Collaborative research projects are viewed as the key to achieving this objective, however, the role of Principal Investigators (PIs) within these complex multi-stakeholder research projects...

This paper examines the relationship between the price bid for a takeover target, the probability of the bid suceeding and the target's price over the course of the bid. We test and reject Samuelson and Rosenthal's (1986) expected value hypothesis. We find that over the bid, the price of the...