The received wisdom is relatively simple – if the economy is doing well, investors put their money together and buy companies. If it's not, they avoid risks. At the moment things are going well, and so even Germany's relatively modest venture capital market is in good shape.
The German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) recently reported that investors plowed 4.5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) into businesses in off-exchange transactions in 2010 – that's 59 percent more than the year before.
As Germany began to overhaul its energy policy, investors discovered green technologies, and negotiations are now under way with the government to make it easier to invest in that particular burgeoning industry. So is venture capital the new fashion in Germany?
To read the full, original article click on this link: Germany's venture capital market starts to take off | Business | Deutsche Welle | 01.06.2011
