Venture Capital in Central and Eastern Europe: A Decade of Opportunity

Its structure will address the historical development and current scale of venture capital investment in the region (driven, on the one side, by the pace of macro- and micro-economic restructuring and European Union convergence, high technology innovation and diffusion and, on the other, gradual improvement in corporate governance standards and reduction of inherent risk).. stock exchanges, bank lending, corporate debt issuance) as to a relatively high sophistication and under-valuation of intangible assets across CEE. The starting point for this publication was the author's doctoral research on Polish, as well as Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Eastern European venture capital markets; providing an overview of how venture capital investment has emerged and evolved in the post-communist economies over the past decade of socio-economic transition. The book is meant as a universal guide to venture capitalism in CEE. Its growing popularity has owed as much to a unique flexibility vis-à-vis more traditional financiers active in the emerging markets (i