Innovation & Technology Transfer 6/97. Financing Innovation

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Innovation 0 Technology t » INNOVATION PROGRAMME · NOVEMBER 1997 Building bridges between researchers, entrepreneurs and investors When you back the industrial and commercial development of a technological innovation, you are bet­ting on the future. But one of the major obstacles facing innovative enterprises in Europe is finding the necessary fi­nance. To grow, or even exist, they must attract venture capital. This is particularly true in the case of SMEs. They must convince very specific investors who are prepared to inject money into their equity capital and thus back up their wager with real commitment. Although available funds for venture capital do exist POLICY NEWS 3­5 Debate:youngpeople¡nEurope's programmesand have greatly increased in Europe over recent years, in­■ EuropeanR&D:bythenumbers vestments in technological innovation remain far from ad­INNOVATIONPROGRAMME NEWS 6­12equate. This is not due to any "ill­will" on the part of the fi­Innovation projectcasestudy: flash memory■ Event: RTD information systems ■ CORDIS: Call nancial world, but is because the bridges between re­for tenders ■ IRC newsletter: Great Expectations searchers and industrialists are poorly structured.

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• Marketing et communication

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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