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.
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The Third Conference of RICAFE2 will take place on 9 & 10 October 2008 at the University of Amsterdam. The call for papers for this conference is now closed. The programme of the conference can be found here.
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.