HVCA-Portfolio CEE Private Equity, Venture Capital and Corporate Finance Conference 2017
Program
How and why is academic freedom important to business? How does higher education influence innovation, and in turn, economic growth?
From the start to a matured CEE PE ecosystem. Impact of global financial crises. Competition with non-PE investors and other challenges. How does the current PE landscape look like in the CEE? Looking forward: what can we expect?
CVC is defined as the practice where a large firm takes an equity stake in a small but innovative firm, to which it may also provide management and marketing expertise; the objective is to gain a specific competitive advantage. Let’s have a debate over advantages and potential disadvantages of that venue.
According to Invest Europe’s statistics Government Agencies are the most active investors of venture capital funds in Europe. Are these sources necessary for the development of the ecosystem? Can state funds have similar efficacy than their privately financed competitors? Is there a crowding-out effect on the ventures capital market?