The ability of small firms to access finance is hindered by persistent market failure, which
creates funding gaps for new businesses, particularly in technology sectors, seeking small …

Despite its undoubted importance to the financing of entrepreneurial ventures, there are few
reliable measures of the size of the informal venture capital market. This paper reviews …

… by CM Mason and RT Harrison, July 2008. We are grateful to the members of the Small
Business Investment Taskforce for their comments and insights at steering group meetings. The …

In this study, the authors investigated how leader vision influences the change-oriented
behaviors of adaptivity and proactivity in the workplace. The authors proposed that leader vision …

Despite growing interest in venture capital, there is a paucity of information on the rate of
return to these investments and the limited research that is available refers almost entirely to …

… In a UK context, it was estimated that there were around 20,000 active and potential business
angel investors in the late 1990s (Mason & Harrison, 2000a). Experienced market analysts …

… Harrison, RT and Mason, CM 1996 Developing the informal venture capital market: a
review of DTI’s Informal Investment Demonstration Projects, Regional Studies, 30: 765±771. …

… Harrison, RT and Mason, CM 1992a The roles of investors in entrepreneurial companies: a
comparison of informal investors and venture capitalists. In Churchill, NC, Birley, S., Bygrave, …

Research into the informal venture capital market is characterized by a focus on empirical
research into the characteristics of the market and on the development and analysis of the …

M ASON CM and H ARRISON RT (2006) After the exit: acquisitions, entrepreneurial recycling
and regional economic development, Regional Studies 40, 55–73. Most studies of the …