RIZIKOVÝ A ROZVOJOVÝ KAPITÁL V ČESKÉ REPUBLICE: MANAŽERSKÉ KNOW-HOW A JEHO TRANSFER

The paper deals with the findings of a survey conducted in the Czech private equity and venture capital market. The major issue considered by the project included: How the venture capital investors can contribute to the success of investee companies in ways other than financing, i.e. via non-financial value-added inputs? The nature of this study is explorative. It relies on primary data that were collected using semi-structured questionnaires. The questionnaire-collected data was treated by descriptive statistical methods reflecting its nature and quantity and by content analysis. This empirical survey has been the first descriptive analyses of non-financial value-added inputs in the Czech venture capital market.