Financing of Early Stage Technology Startups
Financing is extremely important for innovation and growth, in particular at the seed and early stages of business development. But innovative early stage SMEs face several barriers for accessing finance because of their inherent riskiness and weaknesses and these market imperfections justify public intervention in entrepreneurial financing. We will present the case of a region as the Canary Islands and the different instruments implemented from the public and the private sector for the development of the technology entrepreneurial ecosystem.