RICAFE 2

The Regional Comparative Advantage and Knowledge-Based Entrepreneurship (RICAFE2) Research programme was launched on  1st March 2006. The new programme builds on the successful RICAFE project completed in April 2005. Under the RICAFE 2, the original network of RICAFE is expanded to include new European partners Amsterdam, Tilburg, Latvia and Lugano as well as research institutions from India and Israel.  More details are available on the Who's who page. 

The European Commission, DG-Research, sponsors RICAFE 2. It aims to provide research breakthroughs in the economics of risk capital financing of innovative companies, and at offering informed, insightful research advice to the Commission.      

Highlights A RICAFE2 Policy Workshop took place on the 28 January in Brussels, Belgium. This workshop provided a policy implications overview of  RICAFE2 research. More details and the programme can be found here. The new issue of RICAFE2 newsletter is already available here.

Address and contacts RICAFE 2 Financial Markets Group London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7891 Fax: +44 (0)20 7852 3580 Enquiries: Tanya Hall Email: t.hall@lse.ac.uk Subscribe to our Mailing list

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The RICAFE 2 project is funded by the European Commission, DG-Research, under the 'Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society' (FP6) programme, grant CIT5-CT-2006-028942.