Sökning: "early stage financing"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden early stage financing.
1. Early-stage finance : exploring the financial context of small and young knowledge-intensive firms
Sammanfattning : This thesis essentially explores early-stage finaneing of small and young knowledge-intensive finns. The three studies underlying the thesis deal with the entrepreneurs' attitudes to financing and the creation of spin-affs in a corporate venture capital setting. LÄS MER
2. Equity Crowdfunding: What about the Crowd?
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about equity crowdfunding (ECF), and the crowd that makes its existence possible. ECF is a financing method for start-ups and firms that need equity capital to grow their businesses. During an “equity crowdfunding campaign”, entrepreneurs raise funds from a diverse crowd on an online platform, offering shares in return. LÄS MER
3. Investment and financing decisions : on goal formulation and model building
Sammanfattning : To some readers it may seem a little suspect that we focus our study on the firm’s formulations of its goal function. It is not uncommonly felt that the professional contribution of the advisory economist should be restricted to investigating the consequences of different acts in a decision situation. LÄS MER
4. Selection and use of engineering design methods using creative problems solving principles
Sammanfattning : Many modern products require the careful planning of a vast number of aspects of their life cycle to succeed in the market, such as, financing, functionality, quality, reliability, environmental impact, manufacturing process, relationship with suppliers, etc. Potentially, the numerous domain- independent design methods generated for decades in the fields of engineering design and creative problem solving (CPS) have much to offer in today's complex multi-objective product design activity. LÄS MER
5. Intellectual Property Strategies and Innovation: Causes and Consequences for Firms and Nations
Sammanfattning : New and useful ideas and knowledge, commonly denoted innovations after coming into use, are of decisive importance for economic growth and welfare. To promote the generation and diffusion of innovations, most, if not all, industrialized and industrializing societies rely on some form of an intellectual property rights (IPRs) system. LÄS MER