Download or read book Public Policy for Venture Capital written by Arnd Plagge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnd Plagge evaluates public policy for venture capital in the USA and Germany and presents a comprehensive study of the American and the German market for venture capital. He shows that current German public policies aimed at fostering venture capital activity are severely flawed and that only a reversal of priorities, away from supply-side policies towards a demand-oriented stance, will yield real payoffs.