Patento-scientometric indicators for the selection of projects by investment funds

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2015),"Patento-scientometric indicators for the selection of projects by investment funds", VINE, Vol. 45 Iss 3 pp. 446 -467 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This paper aims to assess a method that applies scientometric and patentometric indicators in the selection process of projects by seed capital funds. There is increasing interest in technology-based enterprises, for their capacity to contribute to economic and social development. Nevertheless, in practice, there is some difficulty in assessing non-financial criteria associated with technology for the purposes of choosing investment opportunities. Design/methodology/approach -The literature has presented various methods to instrumentalize the process of evaluation and selection of investment projects. This study focuses on an enterprise that received an investment by the largest seed capital fund in Brazil, to assess to what extent scientific and technological indicators can contribute to understanding the market potential of the firm's technology. Findings -The results show that the use of scientometric and patentometric indicators favors the process of judging non-financial criteria, in particular those related to technology, market, divestment and team. Originality/value -The originality of this paper is in the evaluation of a patento-scientometric approach for the selection process of projects by seed capital funds.

Crowdfunding as a new collaborative process in the knowledge economy

“…Because of this form of financing, the company can directly find resources from the "crowd." Over the past few years, this financing mode has taken many forms, from the one comparable to a donation to that comparable to a real loan with fixed and periodic interest rates, leading to its more recent connotation of equity crowdfunding: an innovation form of market-oriented financing for companies that allow the shareholder to invest directly in a company's equity (Motta et al, 2015;Rodriguez-Ricardo et al, 2018;Gelfond and Foti, 2012).…”