Add to ORKGLast week I wrote about the need for more support for our high tech start-ups, so it was gratifying to see government’s recognition of this gap for our economy’s start-up engine with their announcement of the UK Future Fund. To be launched in the month following the lockdown, the scheme enables up to £250 million of government funds to be used as match-funding where private investors lend equal sums of between £125,000 to £5 million to UK-based high tech SMEs. Government has also pledged a further £750 million to Innovate UK which remains a vital source of finance for companies prioritising development of new technologies targeting near-to-market applications
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This article first appeared in e-O&P Vol 23, No 2, Summer 2016 and is reproduced by kind permission ...
The UK investment ecosystem needs rewiring across the board to increase firms’ desire to invest in p...
Research report'Hybrid' venture capital schemes backed by both private and public sector funding pla...
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