Venture Funders — Are They the Solution?

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Paul M. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Government Support ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Investment Company ◽  
Business Investment ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Financial Climate

The author briefly describes what venture funders do and how they do it to illuminate the process of high-tech business formation and development. By way of illumination, he gives two short histories of successful university spin-outs that his company, Zero Stage Capital, has helped launch. He then examines how this firm's knowledge and experience may apply in the context of the Scottish university and financial climate, and bearing in mind the goals of Scotland's Technology Ventures strategy. Finally, he discusses the US government support initiatives for small business, the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Program. He suggests an approach for its application in increasing the birth-rate of fast-track technology-based ventures in Scotland or in other countries that have the infrastructure to support and enhance the process.

scholarly journals Le contrôle gouvernemental des entreprises multinationales : Le cas des États-Unis

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-322
Author(s):  
Ryamond Vernon
Keyword(s):  
Government Support ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
American Government ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Homogeneous Pattern ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Guide Lines

The article is a case study of the relationship between the American government and US multinational corporation. It argues that while the state - MNE relationships vary from country to country, the US pattern is one of a very limited transnational role for government. Main factors in this pattern are the division of powers between the various branches and agencies of the US government, and changes in administrative staff following each national election. Few cases of government effort at business guidance are found: antitrust policy, foreign aid to friend governments, ineffectual protests again nationalisation of foreign subsidiaries of US MNE, exceptional cases of purposeful intervention, and the US adherence to international guide lines to MNE conduct sponsored by OECD. The article studies in more detail the case of oil, in which the US government is supposed to have intervened in a more direct way. The article concludes that US foreign policy is too complex to be understood simply in terms of government support of US multinational abroad. Besides us industry and the American government are themselves too split to produce a single and homogeneous pattern of policy.

scholarly journals PROMOTING THE EXPORT OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS BY THE US PROCESSING INDUSTRY

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
V. N. Minat
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Tools And Methods

The trade policy pursued by the US government certainly provides as one of the most important measures to stimulate the export of those commodity groups that determine the development of the  country's  economy,  shape  its  innovative  nature  and  the  possibilities  for  the  expansionist promotion of American capital in the global, global geo-economic space. Such goods include high tech products of the American manufacturing industry, the forms, means, tools and methods of export  promotion  of  which  are  the  subject  of  this  study.  Having  studied  the  evolutionary dynamics  of  the  volume  and  structure  of  the  stimulating  elements  of  export  regulation  of American high-tech products  for  the  period  1946–2019,  we  identified  long-term trends characterizing the effective combination of assistance, encouragement, assistance and support to national exporters of the relevant commodity groups in the foreign trade activities of the United States. Based on the results of the study, conclusions are drawn about the unconditional priority of  stimulating  the  export  of  high-tech  products  of  the  US  manufacturing  industry  during  the entire  period  under  consideration,  characterized  by  a  flexible combination of the use of appropriate  forms,  means,  tools  and  methods  of  this  stimulation.  The  author  emphasizes  the primacy of expediency and efficiency in the choice of directions for the expansionary promotion of high-tech products of the American economy to the foreign market, which, of course, is of practical interest for Russian use.

Trading in Souls

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Alice Bach
Keyword(s):  
Government Support ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Jerry Falwell

In the years since 9/11, a group of prominent Evangelical Christian ministers has sought to capture the Islamic faithful and convert them to Christianity. Incendiary comments about Islam from religious leaders like Franklyn Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Vines have drawn rebukes from Muslims and Christian groups alike, but many in the grass roots of Evangelical Christianity have absorbed their leaders’ antipathy for Islam. In Evangelical churches and seminaries across country, lectures, and books criticizing Islam and promoting strategies for Muslim conversions are gaining currency. Many of these groups view the US military and its wars in the Muslim world as the perfect vehicles for missionary work in the difficult ‘10/40 Window’, Evangelical speak for the portion of the Middle East that is oil-rich and waiting for conversion to Christianity. The same Evangelical political groups have dedicated themselves to financial support of ultra-orthodox Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories while advocating US government support of imperialist Israel. Chosen–ness is being crafted as a political term, smacking of imperialism, while the chosen people are the ones on our side.

Pandemic will boost US government role in space sector

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
Government Role ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Start Ups

Subject COVID-19 and the US space industry Significance The COVID-19 lockdown has disrupted operations at NASA, the Space Force and the large, established aerospace contractors, but had a far more serious effect on the start-ups and smaller firms on which investors and the US government have pinned their hopes. Impacts The US space industry’s move towards a market-based model will come under pressure as government support becomes more important. Many small, innovative firms dependent on venture capital are likely to fail as funding dries up in a depressed global economy. Prestige projects, especially US and Chinese human spaceflight programmes, will retain political favour as national morale boosters.

U.S. support for Ukraine’s liberation during the Cold War: A study of Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taras Kuzio
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Government Support ◽  
External Representation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Underground Structures ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Opposition Movements

The US government established contact in Western Europe with anti-Communist refugees following World War II and covertly supported a variety of groups. Initially in the 1940s cooperation between the OSS/CIA and émigré groups provided support for the parachuting of couriers to contact underground organizations in ethnic homelands and over the next four decades until the late 1980s through support for non-violent methods against Soviet power. One of the organisations supported by the US government was Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation that existed from 1952 to 1992. Prolog was established by zpUHVR (external representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council), the political umbrella of Ukrainian nationalist, anti-Soviet partisans who fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet state until the early 1950s. US government support facilitated a democratic alternative to nationalist émigrés who dominated the Ukrainian diaspora as well as a different strategy towards the pursuit of the liberation of Ukraine. Prolog proved to be more successful in its liberation strategy of providing large volumes of technical, publishing and financial support to dissidents and opposition currents within the Communist Party of Ukraine. The alternative nationalist strategy of building underground structures in Soviet Ukraine routinely came under threat from infiltration by the KGB. US government support enabled Prolog to publish books and journals, including the only Russian-language journal published by a Ukrainian émigré organization, across the political spectrum and to closely work with opposition movements in central-eastern Europe, especially Poland.

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