Contemporary Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance

Part I. Status Quo in SME Financing and Financial Market Regulation. - European SME Financing: An Empirical Taxonomy. - The European Capital Markets Union and its Impact on Future SME Financing. - Innovation and Investment Finance in Comparison. - Trends in Financing Programs for the Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis. - Part II. Entrepreneurial Finance from Established Risk Capital Providers. - Research on Venture Capitalists and Business Angels Investment Criteria: A Systematic Literature Review. - Measuring Venture Capital Sentiment in Europe. - The Private Value of Patents for Government-supported Start-Ups: The Case of the European Investment Fund. - In which Regions do Governmental, Independent, and Corporate Venture Capital Firms Invest? An Empirical Investigation across 402 German Regions. - Playing with the Devil? Organizational Voids within Corporate Venture Capital Dyads. - Part III. New Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance. - Social Finance in Europe: The Transition from Grants to Follow-up Financing for Social Enterprises. - Democratising Entrepreneurial Finance: The Impact of Crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). - Is Crowdfunding Suitable for Financing German Public Research Organization (PRO) Projects? .