Obtaining early-stage financing for technology entrepreneurship: Reassessing the demand-side perspective

Venture Capital

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 77-89

  Rasmussen, Einar ^a   Sørheim, Roger ^b  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

demand side; early stage financing; investment readiness; special issue; technology entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859714464     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691066.2012.667908     Document Type: Article

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