Publications

Nelson is recognised as an international expert and has provided input to many publications, including:

• The Effects of Matching Grants on Technology Startups: The Case of Korea’s TIPS, Seoul Centre for Finance and Innovation, World Bank Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, 2024.
• Assessment of opportunities for government backed early-stage VC funds in Georgia, World Bank 2022.
• The instruction manual “Early Stage Investors Cultivation Manual”, World Bank, 2020.
• “Angel Investing Diagnostic Toolkit”, analytical tools to assess potential for early stage investing. For World Bank, 2019.
• Co-Investment Funds framework “tool-kit” for designing and implementing (public/donor funded) co-investment funds. For World Bank 2019.
• The Angel Group Development Canvas), for World Bank 2019.
• Developing Angel Investing in Emerging Markets: for World Bank 2019.
• “Stimulating Business Angels in the Czech Republic”, World Bank Group, 2018.
• Development of the curriculum for “The Professional Business Angel”, the pan-European standard for training Business Angels under the €2.5m EU ESIL project (2017 available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n8uq7o98x5pry6n/ESIL%20Training%20Report%20.pdf?dl=0
• “Angels without Borders, Trends and Policies Shaping Angel Investing Worldwide”, World Scientific, 2015.
• “Creating Angel Investor Groups: International Edition”, World Bank, April 2014.
• “Financing New Ventures, An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Angel Investment”, Geoffrey Gregson, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Collection, 2014.