We studied the optimal funding of the public sector for the Hi-Tech industry in the presence of short-term, cyclical, venture capital (VC) funding by constructing a decision-making model that results in the optimal governmental support and a model that accounts for the dynamics of the VC...

We question the impact of the Venture Capital industry on its hosting economy. This area is rarely explored because 90% of the VC investments are in the US and other large economies, wherein the impact of the VC is too small to be measured. Israel presents a unique case in which the activity of...