Contemporary Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Status Quo in SME Financing and Financial Market Regulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. European SME Financing: An Empirical Taxonomy

      • Christian Masiak, Alexandra Moritz, Frank Lang

      Pages 3-30

   3. The European Capital Markets Union and its Impact on Future SME Financing

      • Arndt Werner, Michael Torben Menk, Florian Neitzert

      Pages 31-58

   4. Innovation and Investment Finance in Comparison

      • Volker Zimmermann

      Pages 59-79

   5. Trends in Financing Programmes for the Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis

      • Lukman Raimi, Ifeatu Uzodinma

      Pages 81-101

3. Entrepreneurial Finance from Established Risk Capital Providers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Research on Venture Capitalists’ and Business Angels’ Investment Criteria: A Systematic Literature Review

      • Christian Granz, Marisa Henn, Eva Lutz

      Pages 105-136

   3. Measuring Venture Capital Sentiment in Europe

      • Walter Diegel, Alexandra Moritz, Joern H. Block, Antonia Botsari, Frank Lang, Helmut Krämer-Eis

      Pages 137-174

   4. The Private Value of Patents for Government-supported Start-Ups: The Case of the European Investment Fund

      • Simone Signore

      Pages 175-199

   5. In Which Regions Do Governmental, Independent, and Corporate Venture Capital Firms Invest? An Empirical Investigation across 402 German Regions

      • Christian Masiak, Christian Fisch, Joern H. Block

      Pages 201-227

   6. Playing with the Devil? Organizational Voids within Corporate Venture Capital Dyads

      • Patrick Röhm, Andreas Kuckertz

      Pages 229-247

4. New Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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   2. Social Finance in Europe: The Transition from Grants to Follow-Up Financing for Social Enterprises

      • Mirko Hirschmann, Alexandra Moritz

      Pages 251-275

   3. Democratising Entrepreneurial Finance: The Impact of Crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)

      • Erik Ackermann, Carolin Bock, Robin Bürger

      Pages 277-308

   4. Is Crowdfunding Suitable for Financing German Public Research Organization (PRO) Projects?

      • Valerie Daldrup, Oliver Krahl, Robin Bürger

      Pages 309-333

More extensive regulations, new technologies, and new means of communication have significantly changed the financing landscape for startups and small to medium-sized companies (SMEs). This volume provides a contemporary research-based overview of the latest trends in entrepreneurial finance and outlines expected future developments. Starting with the status quo in market regulations and the financing structure of SMEs, it addresses a broad range of new financing alternatives for innovative startups (e.g. business angel financing, venture capital and corporate venture capital), as well as recent social phenomena (e.g. crowdfunding and initial coin offerings (ICOs)). Incorporating qualitative, quantitative and mixed analytical methods, the book contributes to a better understanding of the financing world by reflecting both the researcher’s and the practitioner’s perspective.

• New methods of entrepreneurial finance
• Institutional support for start-up financing
• Crowdfunding and crowd investment for start-ups
• Empirical entrepreneurial finance research
• Corporate venture capital regulation
• Financing FinTech startups
• Cryptocurrencies for start-up financing
• Bootstrap financing

• Trier University, Trier, Germany

  Alexandra Moritz, Joern H. Block

• Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany

  Stephan Golla

• University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

  Arndt Werner

Alexandra Moritz is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Management at University of Trier (Germany), where she finished her PhD on Financing of Small and Medium-sized Firms in Europe. Her work has been published in business and economics journals such as Small Business Economics, Venture Capital: An International Journal and Qualitative Research in Financial Markets.


Joern Block is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and University of Trier (Germany). His research has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing and Research Policy. Prof. Block is also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Management Review Quarterly' (Springer).


Stephan Golla is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and Adjunct Professor at University of the Sunshine Coast (USC, Australia).Prof. Golla had previously worked in management positions within VC funded startups and was responsible for the IP commercialization at Western Sydney University (Australia). He publishes in the area of students’ occupational choices and founder identities.


Arndt Werner is Professor and chair for SME Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Siegen (Germany). Prof. Werner has published in various entrepreneurship journals including ET&P, Small Business Economics and Journal of Small Business Management.

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