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In view of Germany's lackluster economic performance during the 1990s, i. e. , at a time when the American economy was booming, a relative lack of venture capital vis-a-vis the United States was lamented in Germany. Ger­ man government programs meant to help raise venture capital in order to fi­ nance "predominantly young, technologically innovative, unlisted small- and medium-sized enterprises which, despite low current profitability, are consid­ ered to have a suflficiently large growth potential," (Deutsche Bundesbank) were to a large extent unsuccessful since their inception in the 1960s. It is well-known that Germans tend to be more risk-averse than Americans, and it is therefore no wonder that the author of this book, Arnd Plagge, finds that Germany's venture capital market is relatively underdeveloped when compared to its counterpart in the United States. There can be no doubt that due to its investment focus on innovative start-up companies, venture capital can play an important role in fostering economic growth and the creation of modern high-skill jobs, especially by spurring the development of entirely new industries and products from such diverse and dynamic realms as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology as well as information and communication technology.

This book has been submitted as dissertation at the Faculty of Business Man­ agement and Economics at Dresden University of Technology, Germany on January 19, 2005. Throughout the completion of this thesis, I received much encouragement and advice from mentors, colleagues and friends. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of them. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk for providing a fruitful research atmosphere at the SAP Chair for Entrep- neurship and Innovation at Dresden University of Technology. His comments and support helped me develop and complete this thesis. Moreover, I thank Prof. Schefczyk for supporting my ambitions to conduct research in the United States. Second, I am especially grateful to Prof. Andrew L. Zacharakis, Ph.D. for hosting me as visiting scholar at Babson College and for supervising my project during this time. This thesis benefited tremendously from his knowledge and from his out­ standing support. His encouragement and support also helped me survive less pro­ ductive times. A great debt is to Prof. Dr. Herman Locarek-Junge who accepted the burden of being my second examiner at Dresden University of Technology. The final paper benefited tremendously from conversations with several experi­ enced researchers and practitioners in the United States. I want to thank Elaine I.

Chuluunbaatar Enkhzaya examines the "inadequate" behaviour of banks in Mongolia by analysing the institutional framework of the banking system, especially in lending. She focuses on the genesis of informal institutions of lending and their interaction with formal institutions of lending. Herewith, informal institutions such as the attitude to risk were indirectly observed by diagnosing the "action-regulating" knowledge of bankers. In order to ensure an effective allocation of the scarce financial resources of Mongolia the author therefore suggests a change - as simultaneous as possible - of formal and informal rules.

Patrick Knust zeigt, dass mit Hilfe des Target Costing eine integrierte kosten- und kundenorientierte Entwicklung von Direct-Banking-Produkten unterstutzt werden kann, und uberpruft die erfolgreiche Anwendbarkeit und die praktische Umsetzung des Ansatzes an Hand einer Fallstudie bei der comdirect bank AG.

Antje Schirm develops a pricing model for credit risk securitisation, explaining fair note issuance pricing by the underlying credit portfolio risk. The underlying credit portfolio risk is modelled in a market context and the observed payout mechanisms of securitisation structures are translated into a derivatives pricing context. Both these blocks together permit a comparison of fair model prices to issuance prices observed in the young securitisation market, such that discrepancies are uncovered.

Philipp D. Riekert's theory of comparative corporate governance of venture capital-backed startup companies focuses on the complementarities between financing, human resource, and market strategies of the startup company, and takes a functional view towards entrepreneuership as bringing about innovation by combining the functions of initiation, uncertainty-bearing, and coordination.

Dissertation Handelshochschule Leipzig 1997

Gertrud Schmitz untersucht differenziert, wie Versicherungsvertreter zur Erzielung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen der Versicherer beitragen koennen, ob ihr dazu notwendiges Verhalten vom Grad ihrer Zufriedenheit abhangt und inwieweit die Zufriedenheit der Versicherungsvertreter durch die Versicherer beeinflussbar ist.

Volker Simon untersucht den Umgang mit komplex-dynamischen Entscheidungssituationen, wobei das "e;systemische"e; Verstandnis von Unternehmung und Management sowie von der Evolution sozialer Systeme hervorgehoben wird.

Die Grundung von Unternehmen, die die Umsetzung von Patenten in technologisch hervorragende Produkte zum Gegenstand haben, ist besonders interessant, weil gerade bei diesen Unternehmen groe Erfolgspotentiale erwartet werden. Mit der Grundung derartiger Unternehmen sind aber auch ganz erhebliche Risiken verbunden, so dass dem Eigenkapital als Risikodeckungspotential besondere Bedeutung zukommt. Da die Grunder junger Technologieunternehmen typischerweise nicht uber umfangreiche Ei- genmittel verfugen, sind sie auf die Zufuhrung von Eigenkapital angewiesen. Hierfur kommen nicht nur Venture Capital-Gesellschaften, Beteiligungsgesellschaften (Private Equity) und private Investoren (Business Angels) in Betracht, sondern insbesondere auch der Borsengang (Going Public). Mit der NASDAQ steht in den USA schon seit langerer Zeit eine funktionelle Borse fur junge Technologieunternehmen zur Verfugung. Nach diesem Vorbild grundete die Deutsche Borse AG den Neuen Markt als Segment des geregelten Freiverkehrs, und in Brussel wurde die EASDAQ gewissermaen als Gegenstuck zur NASDAQ errichtet. Mit der vorliegenden Schrift wird das Ziel verfolgt, die fur diese drei Borsensegmente geltenden institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen in Hinsicht auf ihre Effizienz fur die Eigenkapitalautbringung fur junge Technologieunternehmen zu prufen und die Attrak- tivitat der drei Segmente fur das Going Public zu evaluieren.