Contemporary Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance: An Academic and Policy Lens on the Status-Quo,

Part I. Status Quo in SME Financing and Financial Market Regulation.-  European SME Financing: An Empirical Taxonomy.- The European Capital Markets Union and its Impact on Future SME Financing.- Innovation and Investment Finance in Comparison.- Trends in Financing Programs for the Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.- Part II. Entrepreneurial Finance from Established Risk Capital Providers.- Research on Venture Capitalists' and Business Angels' Investment Criteria: A Systematic Literature Review.- Measuring Venture Capital Sentiment in Europe.- The Private Value of Patents for Government-supported Start-Ups: The Case of the European Investment Fund.- In which Regions do Governmental, Independent, and Corporate Venture Capital Firms Invest? An Empirical Investigation across 402 German Regions.- Playing with the Devil? Organizational Voids within Corporate Venture Capital Dyads.- Part III. New Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance.- Social Finance in Europe: The Transition from Grants to Follow-up Financing for Social Enterprises.- Democratising Entrepreneurial Finance: The Impact of Crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).- Is Crowdfunding Suitable for Financing German Public Research Organization (PRO) Projects?.