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From the back cover: Small business and public financing: What king of entrepreneur decides to go public to fund enterprise projects? What impact does the stock market listing have on the firms? This research highlights a new generation of entrepreneurs: young, dynamic, better educated and more open to team management. It also reveals the positive effects of going public on enterprise management, and allays some common fears. Entrepreneurs are asked what they think of Quebec's SSP and similar programs in other Canadian provinces, and some improvements are suggested to make these programs more accessible to small firms. This book will be of considerable interest to company CEOs, researchers, specialists and government officers in the field of small business financing.