Article | Continental Bank Journal of Applied Corporate Finance | winter 1992

Roundtable on U.S. Risk Capital and Innovation (With a Look at Eastern Europe)

by G. Baty, W. Bygrave, D. Chew, P. Finegan, K. A. Froot, T. Gray, J. Kensiger, G. W. Loveman, S. Magee and J. Martin

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; Innovation and Invention; United States; Europe;

Format: Print

31 pages

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Baty, G., W. Bygrave, D. Chew, P. Finegan, K. A. Froot, T. Gray, J. Kensiger, G. W. Loveman, S. Magee, and J. Martin. "Roundtable on U.S. Risk Capital and Innovation (With a Look at Eastern Europe)." Continental Bank Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 4, no. 4 (winter 1992): 48–78.

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