Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science

Business Angel in the UK: A Review

Authors
Yunfei Du, Jiao Xiong
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Yunfei Du
Available Online January 2014.
DOI
10.2991/gecss-14.2014.28How to use a DOI?
Keywords
business angel, SMEs, entrepreneurship, financing; review
Abstract

As business angel becomes a hotpot and an essential financing source to SMEs nowadays, fully understanding business angel could be necessary for the further development of business angel, especially in China. Because of the relatively completed system of angel investment, business angel in the UK is selected to be reviewed. From a macro-perspective, three key components such as networks, government support and approaches to access of business angel in the UK are reviewed. Afterwards, many feasible advices to the further development of business angel are provided in the end.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
January 2014
ISBN
978-90-78677-96-3
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/gecss-14.2014.28How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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