Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance will publish research-based papers from academics and practitioners on all aspects of private equity finance-institutional venture capital, informal venture capital, corporate venture capital, public sector venture capital, community-based (not-for-profit) venture capital - and on all aspects of the venture capital process from investment decision to exit, including studies of investment patterns, investment decision-making, investment performance, realisation of investment value, exit routes (including the relationship with capital markets), economic impact and public policy. It will seek to publish papers from a wide range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and which use a variety of research methods.

A non-inclusive list of topics which the journal will cover includes investment decision-making, the relationships between investors and their investee companies, whether venture capitalists add value to their investee companies, the role of venture capital in management buy-outs, the financing of technology-based businesses, exit routes of investors, the returns from venture capital investments, the performance of publicly-quoted venture capital funds, the geographical distribution of venture capital investments and evaluations of the impact of government initiatives.

Submitted papers will normally be reviewed by the editors and three referees.

From time-to-time the editors will commission review articles, for example of recent books on venture capital and associated topics, and of specific topics in the venture capital field. In addition, the editors will devote special issues (not more than one per year) to papers on a particular theme where, in the view of the editors and the advisory board, there is a need to stimulate research.

The journal will be international in its coverage, focusing not just on established venture capital markets such as the USA and European Union but also emerging venture capital markets (e.g. central and eastern Europe, Asia/Pacific Rim).

In order to raise the level of knowledge of venture capital activity on a global basis the journal will include as a regular feature specially commissioned overviews of the state of venture capital activity in various countries, written by industry experts, government officials or academics.

The journal will seek to develop a practitioner-academic interface by creating an Executive Forum to which practitioners will be invited to contribute.

The aims of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance are therefore

to be the main focus for venture capital research and quickly establish itself as the premier publication outlet for research and debate in this field of academic enquiry

•  to provide an outlet for the publication of research on all aspects of venture capital
•  to provide a forum which brings together venture capital research undertaken by academics from different disciplines and research that is conducted from various methodological and philosophical standpoints
•  to provide a forum for communication between academic researchers, venture capital practitioners and policy-makers
•  to raise the level of knowledge of venture capital activity on a global basis

For further information contact the Editors:

Professor Colin Mason, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde, Level 14, Livingstone Tower, Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)141 548 4259 Fax: +44 (0)141 552 7602, E-mail: colin.mason@strath.ac.uk

Professor Richard T Harrison, Queen's University Management School, Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK. Email: r.harrison@qub.ac.uk

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Acknowledgements

*The book reviewed here is David Jones and Paul Brown, Business Angels in Europe (Sage, London, 1996), 220 pp., £34.50 (hbk), ISBN 0-8039-7052-8, £14.95 (pbk) ISBN 0-8039-7053-6.

on the reviewer(s) follows using the format outlined above.