Purpose This paper aims to explore how Sharīʿah-compliant instruments can be used to
protect investments and attract investors to Islamic venture capital (IVC). Equity investments …

Maize is susceptible to biotic and abiotic stresses. The most important abiotic stresses in
Africa are drought and low soil fertility. Aflatoxin contamination is a potential problem in …

Circuit breakers are important mechanisms used to prevent excess short-term volatility and
to ensure price continuity. This article presents the results of an international survey on the …

Stabilization of a single wheel mobile robot attracted researcher attentions in robotic area.
However, the budget requirements for building experimental setups capable in investigating …

For the past fifty years in the United States, venture capital (VC) has provided initial funding
to innovative entrepreneurial enterprises, while the European venture capital industry has …

Despite the significance of venture capital (VC) in entrepreneurial financing and the
increasing interest in VC by institutional investors, the literature has not examined what …

This paper documents the dramatic improvement in institutional, legal and regulatory
environment for the exiting of foreign venture capital in China. It also discusses the recent …

Lange bevor in Fachliteratur und Medien die tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Private-
Equity-Branche ein Thema wurden, hat Pedram Farschtschian die Verlagerung der …

Private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) funding is the provision of equity capital by
financial investors to non-quoted companies with high growth potential. It has a particular …

New business creation is shown to be a potent force for economic development and
productivity improvement (Aghion and Howitt, 2006; Aghion et al., 2004). However …