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The study analyzes Market Sophistication indicators based on data from the Global Innovation Index 2025 across CEE economies.
The study evaluated 5 technology-based startups in Manaus to measure their technological and managerial readiness to access non-reimbursable public grants under the Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB) policy for 2024 to 2026.
The paper was published in Vol. 7 of the International Journal of Advance and Applied Research.
The research is grounded in 37 qualitative interviews with founders of early-stage tech startups supported by accelerators, collected across two waves between May 2021 and August 2022, and during 2025.
The study analyzes a dataset of 808 technology unicorn acquisitions announced between 2010 and 2024, including 601 deals involving U.S.-based PE sponsors and 207 non-U.S. deals.
Nigeria attracted more than $1 billion in FinTech-related investments between 2020 and 2023.
The study analyzes a global private-market universe of approximately 270,000 companies, including more than 53,000 firms with post-money valuations.
The Indian fintech market is projected to reach US$1 trillion by 2030, driven by rapid digital transformation across financial services.
The German venture capital business climate indicator fell by 10.2 points to -35.8 points in the second quarter of 2026.
Addressing climate change relies heavily on developing climate technologies, which require significant annual investment volumes (page 2).
Mega-rounds of $100 million or more accounted for 81% of total global venture capital funding in Q2 2026.
In 2025, 74% of UK VC investment by deal value originated from outside the UK, the highest level in ten years.
The global crowdfunding market is estimated at over $2 billion, functioning as a financial infrastructure that stimulates innovation and employment.
Regulatory constraints capped ordinary retail investor contributions at ¥500,000 per issuer, while firm fundraising through equity crowdfunding was limited to below ¥100 million per year.
A survey of 500 Russian technology companies by Baza.vc showed that 62% had not raised external financing, 29% received investments, and 10% obtained loans.
Grassroots innovations are community-led local initiatives operating with limited resources to solve context-specific problems across journal pages 293 to 312.
In Latin America, 73% of female-led businesses lack growth resources, contributing to a credit gap of $93 billion for female SMEs.
In 2019, Brazil invested R$ 89.5 billion in science and technology, representing about 1.2% of GDP according to OECD data.
More than 70% of startups in Colombia do not survive beyond five years of existence due to limited financing and administrative constraints.
The Fondo Emprender was established in Colombia in 2002 to foster sustainable venture creation through seed capital and technical advisory [p.3].
The study collected survey data from 100 equity crowdfunding investors in Indonesia using a five-point Likert scale.
Sales or revenue optimism among Canadian SMEs rose to 44% in July 2026.
Overall invested capital declined by 15.5% compared to the first half of 2025.
The study conducts a systematic literature review analyzing 95 papers published between 2002 and 2025.
The early entrepreneurial activity rate (TEA) among Colombian youth aged 18 to 24 reaches 22%, surpassing the regional average of 15.7%.
The study analyzed a public historical Kickstarter dataset comprising more than 300,000 projects to develop ex ante predictive models for crowdfunding success.
In H1 2026, US VC deal value reached $412.7 billion with megadeals of $100 million or more representing 87.5% of total capital deployed.
A study conducted at the Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo surveyed a sample of 406 students from a population of 9,690 to evaluate student financial capacity for entrepreneurial investment.
During Spain's economic downturn from December 2007 to March 2013, overall employment loss in the Social Security system was 16 %, while loss among self-employed workers was limited to 11 %.
Research and development (R&D) investment remains persistently low across Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, staying below 0.1% of GDP in all three countries.
