Why has the investment performance of technology-specialist, European venture capital funds been so poor?

Research Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 947-976

  Murray, Gordon C ^a   Marriott, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fund performance; Government support; New technology based firms; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141969932     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(98)00102-4     Document Type: Article

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