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\"A fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s\"--Publisher's web site.

The innovative strength of the world's two largest economies, the United States and Japan, are based on two different forms of industrial and social organization. For the United States, venture companies play a key role in technical and economic progress, while in Japan they have only a minor role. This book argues that without vibrant new high technology companies, Japanese industry will decline inexorably. At the same time, if the favourable yet delicate environment in America is undermined, America will face collapse of its innovative and economic strength. Japan has done much to improve its environment for high technology ventures. It has some promising new high technology companies and gradually increasing numbers of entrepreneurial scientists and managers. But they continue to swim against the current. One reason is that large, established companies dominate high technology fields and pursue an autarkic innovation strategy-relying on research in-house or in affiliated companies. Another reason is that these same large companies still have preferential access to university discoveries, largely because of government policies. Thus, high technology ventures are deprived of niches in which to grow, skilled personnel, and their natural customer base. In the field of university-industry relations, steps can still be taken to improve the environment for high technology ventures-steps that would also increase the quality of university science. The American–Japanese innovation dichotomy represents a broader dichotomy between so-called liberal and coordinated market economies. The lessons from these two countries' experiences are applicable to many industrialized countries, and to developing countries shaping their innovation systems.

Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms contains information that has been extracted from the American title, The Guide to Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms, and reformatted for the Canadian market. This database, now in its second year of publication, has been designed to give librarians, entrepreneurs and others interested in the Venture Capital and Private Equity fields the most essential and current information on the Venture Capital industry.

Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms contains information that has been extracted from the American title, The Guide to Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms, and reformatted for the Canadian market. This database, now in its second year of publication, has been designed to give librarians, entrepreneurs and others interested in the Venture Capital and Private Equity fields the most essential and current information on the Venture Capital industry.

Bridging Islands is a detailed examination of the key role of venture companies in national technical and economic success, contrasting the industrial and social organization of the world's two largest economies, the US and Japan. The author argues that national policy on venture companies is of paramount importance to their economic growth. - ;The innovative strength of the world's two largest economies, the United States and Japan, are based on two different forms of industrial and social organization. For the United States, venture companies play a key role in technical and economic progres

In this paper, we propose the model averaging estimation method for multiplicative error model and construct the corresponding weight choosing criterion based on the Kullback–Leibler divergence with a hyperparameter to avoid the problem of overfitting. The resulting model average estimator is proved to be asymptotically optimal. It is shown that the Kullback–Leibler model averaging (KLMA) estimator asymptotically minimizes the in-sample Kullback–Leibler divergence and improves the forecast accuracy of out-of-sample even under different loss functions. In simulations, we show that the KLMA estimator compares favorably with smooth-AIC estimator (SAIC), smooth-BIC estimator (SBIC), and Mallows model averaging estimator (MMA), especially when some nonlinear noise is added to the data generation process. The empirical applications in the daily range of S&P500 and price duration of IBM show that the out-of-sample forecasting capacity of the KLMA estimator is better than that of other methods.

This book focuses on the applicability of Shari'ah-based structures and Islamic venture capital to the private equity industry. It includes case studies and examples of business financial appraisals to give an in-depth view of the application and operation of shariah compliant private equity and Islamic venture capital.

Structural battery integrated composites (SBICs) combining outstanding strength and heat resistance are highly desirable candidates for next generation high speed aircraft. Here, a novel high‐temperature‐resistant bi‐continuous electrolyte based on phthalonitrile resin is presented, allowing the construction of SBICs capable of stable operation across a wide temperature range. Excellent mechanical strength and high ionic conductivity can coexist in a bi‐continuous structure electrolyte (PL50) where the phthalonitrile resin serves as the matrix phase and the ionic liquid electrolyte serves as the conductive phase. Benefiting from the thermal stability of the phthalonitrile resin, SBICs assembled with a PL50 bi‐continuous electrolyte deliver excellent mechanical performance even at temperatures exceeding 200 °C, with a flexural strength of 299 MPa and a flexural modulus of 31.8 GPa. Additionally, with an increase in operating temperature, PL50@SBICs demonstrated enhanced rate performance while maintaining good cycling stability. The demonstration of resisting mechanical abuse at high temperatures and flame retardance further suggests the promise of SBICs with PL50 bi‐continuous electrolytes operating under extreme conditions. The thermal stability of phthalonitrile resin ensures that the bi‐continuous structure electrolyte maintains its structural integrity, excellent mechanical strength, and high ionic conductivity even at extreme temperatures exceeding 200 °C. Consequently, structural battery‐integrated composites assembled with this electrolyte achieve excellent mechanical performance, stable electrochemical properties, and overall safety across a wide temperature range.

While investment opportunities in publicly offered and traded companies continue to present great access to the financial markets for a wide array of investors, private, exempt offerings increasingly play a greater role in the overall investing landscape. These private offerings, however, are typically only available to a select group of individuals and investment firms known as \"accredited investors. \"In August of 2020, the SEC adopted changes to the accredited investor definition in an attempt to modernize the definition and present occasion for greater capital formation. The basis for creating a distinction between accredited and unaccredited investors is rooted in a regulatory tradition that seeks to protect some investors from potentially dangerous investment vehicles, in the hope that such an oversight scheme can lead to more efficient and stable markets. In doing so, however, large portions of Americans are prevented from investing in a growing number of offerings that often represent dramatically positive asymmetric return opportunities. The newly revised definition indicates a positive step in the right direction but does not go far enough to achieve its goals, ultimately continuing to disallow many adequately sophisticated individual investors from a chance at participation in the exempt offering market. This Note offers several reasons the newly amended definition falls short and presents several additional means by which an individual investor can attain accredited status. This Note emphasizes that such changes would have the greatest impact in geographic areas with less available capital, particularly in product markets that are niche or growing. This Note closes by examining a burgeoning market, tokenized real estate, as a proxy for explaining some of the economic and financial benefits ofan expanded \"accredited\" definition for both offerors and potential investors.

This is the first book of its kind to systematically integrate crowdfunding in the entrepreneurial finance research field and extend the current debate to show how crowdfunding can be leveraged as a strategic tool to grow new ventures. Utilising original empirical evidence of companies that have raised funds via crowdfunding, it discusses the value-added services that the crowd provides to entrepreneurs, as well as how and under which conditions crowdfunding helps company development by facilitating subsequent access to critical financial and non-financial resources from external stakeholders. The first part introduces the most popular models and tactics for a successful crowdfunding campaign and illustrates the characteristics of the crowdfunding phenomenon and its evolution across the world during the last decade. The second part of the book, demonstrating how crowdfunding can be a starting point to seed financing, illustrates and discusses how entrepreneurs can use crowdfunding as a strategic tool for accessing subsequent resources from external stakeholders - showing the benefits, beyond capital, that entrepreneurs can gain from the crowd, as well as potential risks. Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs is particularly useful for academics, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurial finance, strategic management, as well as professionals interested in how crowdfunding can be utilised as a strategic tool to create competitive advantage.