"Financial Times" Investing in the Future - Steven

This is a comparative study of venture capital funding with examples taken from the UK, USA, Germany and Japan. Focus is placed on the high technology sector and cases include Intel and Apple. It also discusses the effect availability of funding has had on success.;The book analyzes the current situation and future anticipated trends with respect to the provision of Classic Venture Capital to high technology companies in the seed, start-up and early phases of their development. It focuses on some of the key financing and economic issues relating to these practices and makes outline proposals as to how Classic Venture Capital activity can be most cost effective and efficiently encouraged in the UK.;It covers the broadest range of culturally distinct approaches to financing development among the leader countries in the development of technology-based industries. It also address both the collection of data and the analysis of trends, as well as the mechanims, dynamics and economics of the funding and generation of returns from new technology-based ventures.