Mobilising investors for Blue Growth

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dc.contributor.authorvan den Burg, Sander W. K.
dc.contributor.authorStuiver, Marian
dc.contributor.authorBolman, Bas C.
dc.contributor.authorWijnen, Roland
dc.contributor.authorSelnes, Trond
dc.contributor.authorDalton, Gordon
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-21T13:22:10Z
dc.date.available2017-02-21T13:22:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-13
dc.date.updated2017-02-10T12:57:41Z
dc.description.abstractThe European Union's Blue Growth Strategy is a long term strategy to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors, aiming to contribute to innovation and economic growth (European Commission, 2012). The EU sees the financial sector as a key partner to bring about transition to sustainable consumption and production. However, knowledge about investment behavior, experience with working with these investors, and ways to engage investors in the Blue Growth sectors is lacking. This paper examines this knowledge gap. It characterizes investors and identifies investor behavior, investors' motives, and conditions and criteria relevant for investors to invest in Blue Growth sectors. The presented results are derived from a literature study on investors and investment behavior, an electronic survey and in-depth interviews. Stereotypical images of private equity bankers or wealthy individuals do not do justice to the diversity of investors involved in the Blue Growth sectors. These sectors are still in development and various risks reduce the willingness to invest. Risk mitigation should be seen as a shared responsibility of entrepreneurs, investors and governments. Government support must go further than financial support for research and development or technological demonstration projects. Proven technologies get stuck in the Valley of Death as investors alone are not willing to take the risk associated with upscaling of promising technologies. Tied in a reciprocal relationship, governments need to attract private investors—their capital, knowledge, and networks—to further grow of the Blue Growth sectors while investors need stable, predictable, and effective government support schemes to mitigate their financial risks.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid291
dc.identifier.citationvan den Burg, S. W. K., Stuiver, M., Bolman, B. C., Wijnen, R., Selnes, T. and Dalton, G. (2017) ‘Mobilizing Investors for Blue Growth’, Frontiers in Marine Science, 3, 291 (9pp). doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00291en
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fmars.2016.00291
dc.identifier.endpage9en
dc.identifier.issn2296-7745
dc.identifier.journaltitleFrontiers in Marine Scienceen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3659
dc.identifier.volume3en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::CSA/652629/EU/Marine Investment for the Blue Economy/MARIBEen
dc.rights© 2017, the Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.en
dc.subjectEU policyen
dc.subjectInvestorsen
dc.subjectInvestment theoryen
dc.subjectOffshore winden
dc.subjectAquacultureen
dc.subjectBlue Growthen
dc.titleMobilising investors for Blue Growthen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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