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Case
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2012
(Revised from original 2011 version)
inge watertechnologies, GmbH
by
Ramana Nanda, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Markus Mittermaier
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Abstract
Using the financing history and exit choices of a German clean-tech startup as a lens, this case explores the reasons why venture-backed entrepreneurship is much lower in Germany than the US, despite a robust SME sector and large-corporate innovation in Germany. It also shows the tight link between investor incentives and a startup's product market strategy, including differences between "pure-play" VCs and corporate venture capital investors.
Keywords: entrepreneurial finance;
finance;
negotiation;
entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Technology Industry;
Germany;
Citation:
Nanda, Ramana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Markus Mittermaier. "inge watertechnologies, GmbH." Harvard Business School Case 812-002, September 2012. (Revised from original October 2011 version.)