Field Guide to Entrepreneurial Finance

Leading scholars from across the globe provide a roadmap through the rapidly evolving world of entrepreneurial finance in this timely book, exploring how start-ups and scale-ups secure funding. They analyse angels, venture capital, banks, crowdfunding, government programs and emerging technologies such as blockchain and AI, offering practical insights, identifying key gaps and future directions for research.

The book presents practical insights on causal identification, dataset usage and novel methodological approaches from lab experiments to EEG analysis. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it incorporates perspectives from finance, entrepreneurship, management, public policy, psychology, data science and neuroscience, facilitating a well-rounded and multi-dimensional mapping of the full landscape of entrepreneurial finance.

With its broad scope and hands-on orientation, this book is an essential companion for economics and business students seeking to understand or study how entrepreneurs are financed in today’s economy. It is a crucial reference point for policymakers and analysts in innovation and SME policy, alongside data scientists and methodologists interested in finance applications.