Venture capital : international comparisons / edited by Milford B. Green.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-281) and index.

"First published in 1991"--T.p. verso.

Venture capital : the developing literature / Rod B. McNaughton -- Preferences for US venture capital investment 1970-1988 / Milford B. Green -- Venturing on the 'Third Coast' : recipient firms in the central states / Chris Thompson -- Regional patterns of venture capital investment / Richard Florida, Donald F. Smith, Jr. and Elizabeth Sechoka -- What do we know about the geography of US venture capitalists? / Chris Thompson -- The rise and fall of venture capital in New Zealand / Martin Perry -- Venture capital in Canada / Rod B. McNaughton -- Venture capital, the equity gap and the 'north-south divide' in the United Kingdom / Colin M. Mason and Richard T. Harrison -- Asian venture capital : financing risk opportunities in the Pacific Rim / Thomas R. Leinbach.

First published in 1990, this is the first text to offer a goegraphicand regional study of venture capitalism. Although the importance of this type of capitalism in creating and nurturing small firms has long been recognized, it does not have a uniform global character. Drawing on previously unused data, Green's book offers a geographic comparison which displays the diverse forms of venture capitalist markets from the well established to the newly emerging and the rapidly dissapearing.