translate English to French: Interestingly, a Finnish study indicated that enterprises holding patents or patent 69 applications found it significantly more difficult to access finance than other enterprises in the sample . A Swedish study suggests that enterprises aiming at new markets with a new technology have more difficulties in attracting financiers than other types of high-tech enterprises, not only in their early stage of development, but also 70 later on . In a UK study the shortage of finance was found to be a constraint, notably on the growth of the most 71 technologically sophisticated businesses . From these results one may conclude that: (i) the more complex and/or risky the project is the more difficult it is to acquire finance, and (ii) tapping new markets (i.e. new customers) is considered to be especially risky and investors are even more reluctant to provide money for such kinds of undertakings.
Une étude portugaise révèle que le financement nécessaire dans une entreprise indépendante basée sur le savoir, est en fait modeste.