The paper deals with the findings of a survey conducted in the Czech private equity and venture capital market. The major issue considered by the project included: How the venture capital investors can contribute to the success of investee companies in ways other than financing, i.e. via non-financial value-added inputs? The nature of this study is explorative. It relies on primary data that were collected using semi-structured questionnaires. The questionnaire-collected data was treated by descriptive statistical methods reflecting its nature and quantity and by content analysis. This empirical survey has been the first descriptive analyses of non-financial value-added inputs in the Czech venture capital market.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate IPO developments across five CEE countries between 2003 and 2012. Using a wider range of methods and different data sets we intend to complement the previous research. Applying descriptive statistics, relevant local developments are analysed first before being compared with leading European markets (London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse). We also investigated the assumption that a growing market has an explanatory power for the accelerating IPO activity. For this purpose we performed a Spearman correlation analysis. The data were evaluated at the significance level of α = 5 %. All CEE capital markets recorded strong dynamism over the observed period. All fundamental capital market parameters increase the attractiveness of individual capital markets, although their values lag behind developed European capital countries. The sole leader in the region is Poland with a flourishing IPO market. Our assumption that a growing market has a positive impact on IPO activities could not be supported by empirical evidence.
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