Targeting venture capital: Lessons from Israel’s yozma program

Financial Systems, Corporate Investment in Innovation, and Venture Capital

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 85-116

  Avnimelech, Gil ^a   Teubal, Morris ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 58149401476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781845420642.00009     Document Type: Chapter

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