'Investment Readiness': A Critique of Government Proposals to Increase the Demand for Venture Capital

By Colin Mason, Richard T. Harrison. 2001

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Towards a model of the business angel investment process (2007, background): “First, presentation skills training for entrepreneurs in the overall context of investment readiness (Mason and Harrison, 2001) could be beneficial.”
Spatial Proximity Effects and Regional Equity Gaps in the Venture Capital Market: Evidence from Germany and the United Kingdom (2005, background): “In the United Kingdom, the overwhelming clustering of venture capital firms in and around the financial centre of London reinforces the marked concentration of investment in the southeastern area of the country relative to other regions (Martin et al, 2003; Mason and Harrison, 1999; 2003).”
Funding the growth of UK technology-based small firms since the financial crash: are there breakages in the finance escalator? (2013, background): “From a supply- side perspective therefore, there is a demand side problem relating to a lack of attractive investment propositions as well as a need for business investor readiness programmes (Mason and Harrison 2001; Mason and Kwok 2010; Rasmussen and Sørheim 2012).”
Attracting cross-border venture capital: the role of a local investor (2008, background): “First, prior research on venture capital policy has increasingly paid attention to the demand side and acknowledged the importance of investment readiness (Mason and Harrison 2001, Baygan 2003).”
Barriers to investment in the informal venture capital sector (2002, background): “This involves helping entrepreneurs to understand the expectations and requirements of investors and how to make their business plans into attractive investment opportunities (Mason and Harrison 2001).”
The cost of growth: small firms and the pricing of bank loans (2015, unknown): “In line with ‘‘investment readiness’’ (Mason and Harrison 2001), the main goal of such assistant to growth firms should be increasing the quality of loan application and also providing information on the different banking product and services, and their associate costs, potentially available for tho”
Informal Sources of Venture Finance (2006, background): “Accordingly, recent interventions have sought to address the issue of ‘investment readiness’ (Mason and Harrison, 2001).”
Addressing barriers to eco-innovation: Exploring the finance mobilisation functions of institutional innovation intermediaries (2016, background): “…niche-market and supported commercial) are reached – when ‘investment readiness’ is proved by signalling the quality of the business proposition linked to the emerging technology – external financiers such as business angels and venture capitalists (VCs) start financing (Mason & Harrison 2001).”