Early-stage venture capital funds, scale economies and public support

Venture Capital

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 351-384

  Murray, Gordon ^a  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equity gap; Fund performance; New technology based firms; Seed capital; Venture capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011176856     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136910699295857     Document Type: Article

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