Investment decisions will be a major force in shaping how and where nanotechnology develops. Nanotechnology investments will largely be handled through partnership and technology licensing between companies rather than by young companies experiencing explosive growth.
Venture capital is money that is typically invested in young, unproven companies with the potential to develop into multibillion-dollar industry leaders, and it has been an increasingly important source of funds for high-technology start-up companies in the last several years. Venture capitalists are the agents that provide these financial resources as well as business guidance in exchange for ownership in a new business venture. VCs typically hope to garner returns in excess of 3050 percent per year on their investments. They expect to do so over a four- to seven-year time horizon, which is the period of time, on average, that it takes a start-up company to reach a liquidity event (a merger, acquisition, or initial......
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