Innovation Performance and Government Financing
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Innovation Performance and Government Financing
External financing is important when inventors and small technology-based firms commercialize their inventions. However, the private information of inventors about the quality of their products causes information asymmetries and moral hazard problems. To help compensate for potentially non-existing capital markets, the Swedish Government has intervened by offering loans with different terms to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0827-6331,2169-2610
DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2008.10593415