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"132 short histories of organisations, grouped in thirteen sections"--Introduction.
"It took considerable courage for a woman to uproot herself and her family and travel with her husband to make a new life in a new country: "The Otago of our mothers" pays tribute to those pioneer women who faced the uncertainty and played such a large part in the formation of Otago. Ill prepared by the crowded industrial conditions of their homeland for life in the undeveloped countryside of New Zealand, they shared the workload with the men. They had to cut and drag timber through heavy bush, make wattle and daub huts and where the soil permitted, hand made bricks. The need for making an existence brought much unsuspected ingenuity to the surface, showing unexpected strengths and resourcef...
Since the 1980s, the informal venture capital industry has been gaining more attention both in academic and industrial circles. The role of angel investing in economic growth and job creation is now well documented, with more emphasis given in recent years to the effectiveness of increasing the supply and demand for risk capital through entrepreneurship stimulation instruments such as business angel networks. In contrast, this paper looks at the informal venture capital industry from a gestalt perspective, where other stimulus instruments such as incubators, industrial estates and clusters are integrated with business angel networks into a single role to be played by the informal venture capital industry in the context of what is referred to here as capitermediation.
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