Entrepreneurial Finance and SMEs’ Reality: an International Survey on the Knowledge and Academic Practices of Researchers
Entrepreneurial finance is a field of knowledge specific to the entrepreneur / SME that considers their peculiarities in the analysis of financial issues. Despite having benefited from the advice of experienced researchers to promote its emergence, it is not yet well “installed” in academic circles. We can see, from an international survey completed by 149 researchers, the lack of common references and the predominance of certain theories and methods which reflect more the ideology of classical finance. These results lead us to make some proposals that promote the production of knowledge useful to practitioners.