The Size of the Informal Venture Capital Market in the United Kingdom

By Colin Mason, Richard T. Harrison. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Measuring business angel investment activity in the United Kingdom: a review of potential data sources (2008, background): “(p. 305) The approach by Mason and Harrison (2000) started with the 5651 investors registered with the 48 UK business angel networks listed in 1999–2000.”
Does Gender Matter? Women Business Angels and the Supply of Entrepreneurial Finance (2007, unknown): “In a U.K. context, it was estimated that there were around 20,000 active and potential business angel investors in the late 1990s (Mason & Harrison, 2000a).”
Exploring entrepreneurial legitimacy in reward-based crowdfunding (2014, background): “Legitimacy gives ventures access to external stakeholders and is associated with inflow of exogenous resources (Mason and Harrison 2000; Chen, Yao, and Kotha 2009).”
Financing, Regulatory Costs and Entrepreneurial Propensity (2007, background): “, 2002) and that informal capital provides funds to a greater number of new firms than formal venture capital (Mason and Harrison, 2000).”
Barriers to investment in the informal venture capital sector (2002, background): “In the UK it has been estimated that there are between 20 000 and 40 000 business angels who invest between £0.5 bn and £1 bn per annum in around 3000± 6000 businesses (Mason and Harrison 2000a).”
The role of venture capital in the emerging entrepreneurial finance ecosystem: future threats and opportunities (2019, background): “…resulting in a gap – often referred to as the “primary funding gap” – between the demand for financial resources by start-up companies and the supply of early-stage equity capital (Mason and Harrison 2000; Hall and Lerner 2010; Landström and Mason 2016; Wilson, Duruflè, and Hellmann 2018).”
Informal Sources of Venture Finance (2006, background): “In contrast, ‘second generation studies’ have focused on the investment process (Mason and Harrison, 2000a).”
'Investment Readiness': A Critique of Government Proposals to Increase the Demand for Venture Capital (2001, background): “In the UK in 3,000–6,000 companies (MASON and HARRISON, 2000b).this debate has surfaced on frequent occasions since the ‘equity gap’ was rst identi ed in the 1930s.”