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Venture Capital In Regional Australia: Attitudes Toward Venture Capital Requirements Among Sme Principals And Their Advisors, Stephen Kelly, Jeremy Buultjens
Venture Capital In Regional Australia: Attitudes Toward Venture Capital Requirements Among Sme Principals And Their Advisors, Stephen Kelly, Jeremy Buultjens
Adjunct Professor Stephen J Kelly
This paper provides results from exploratory research examining attitudes of regional SME principals and their professional advisors toward venture capital and postulates how this may affect regional SME use of venture capital. The research was conducted as part of a larger project investigating relationships between venture capital, venture capitalists and regional SME development. Analysis using exploratory factor analysis identified three factors representing investment determinants, venture capital benefits and relationship issues, with SME principals and their advisors being cognisant of the importance of investment determinants but uncertain as to the benefits of venture capital and the role of interpersonal relationships. It …
Virtual R&D Teams: A Potential Growth Of Education-Industry Collaboration, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha
Virtual R&D Teams: A Potential Growth Of Education-Industry Collaboration, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide …