Analyzing strategic global and national trends in financing infrastructure for small innovative businesses

All over the world development of small innovative businesses (startups) is connected with the high level of risk, and thus, there is acute shortage of financial resources at the early and later stages of functioning of these enterprises. Revealing and analyzing strategic trends and patterns of development of financing infrastructure of small innovative businesses is an important stage of building a strategy and it will afterwards make it possible to obtain strategic opportunities and neutralize potential threats to this market of capital. The article presents analysis of strategic development trends of the venture investment market. The results of the analysis are used as the basis for strategic trends of development of the market of angel investment, grants and instruments of attracting financial resources of the “new money” such as crowdfunding and crowdlending. The author of the article has conducted a study of strategic trends of development of financing infrastructure of small innovative businesses at a global and national levels. The study will allow further identification of opportunities and threats and formation of strategic priorities for developing this market of capital.

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