UK keen to mimic German venture scheme

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRENDS and MATURITY PATTERNS IN UK VENTURE

Venture capital is equity finance (the business risk-bearing class of capital) provided to unquoted businesses. Such investee firms can be started up, expanded, rescued, purchased as unquoted businesses, or become unquoted as a consequence of purchase using venture capital. Moreover, it can enable additional bank finance to be raised, usually of the traditional type (term, loans and overdrafts)...

Returns to Venture Capital

The returns to private equity investment have become a vexed issue, attracting widespread debate in the media, government, and among researchers. Much of the attention has focused on later-stage buyout investments, but there is a general move towards greater transparency and disclosure of the returns to both early and late-stage venture capital (VC) investments. Shortcomings in the information ...

Commentary on 'What is the point: will screening mammography save my life?' by Keen and Keen

Commentary on Keen and Keen 'What is the point: will screening mammography save my life?' BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2009.

A keen eye for risk.

A 56 year old woman was referred to the rapid access chest pain clinic with stable angina pectoris. Her only cardiovascular risk factor was a family history of atherosclerosis, with her mother suffering from myocardial infarction at 50. Her body mass index was 20 kg/m and the main abnormality on examination was the eye sign shown in . Fasting serum cholesterol and low density lipoprotein were b...

Industry toxicologists keen on reducing animal use.