Partnership For Growth:

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Partnership For Growth A Silicon Valley Venture
Capital Model for Italy
Ambassador Ronald P. Spogli
5th AIFI International Institutional Investors
Meeting
September 23, 2006, Venice
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Forms of Risk Capital, How Delivered, and Overlap
Source National Association of Seed and Venture
Funds, May 2006
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Early-stage Investment in 2004 (millions of euro)

Source EVCA, 2005 AIFI, 2006
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Availability of Venture Capital
Availability Of Venture Capital
Rank (of 117) 58 24
16 3 27 31
4 1
Entrepreneurs with innovative but risky projects
can generally find venture capital in your
country (1-not true, 7-true)
Source World Economic Forum, Global
Competitiveness Report, 2005-2006 Parthenon
Group, Transformational Capabilities of
Investment in Italy, 2006
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Capitalization and Number of Companies Quoted on
EU Exchanges (August 2006)
Source Federation of European Securities
Exchanges (FESE)
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Partnership For Growth A Silicon Valley Venture
Capital Model for Italy
Ambassador Ronald P. Spogli
5th AIFI International Institutional Investors
Meeting
September 23, 2006, Venice