Research showcase with Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at LSE. If you have a business idea and the entrepreneurial mindset to pursue it, you’re likely to have come across Business Accelerators and Seed Funds – organisations geared at giving individuals and their new businesses the support and stress tests required to take their next steps. Research by Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe of the LSE Department of Finance examines the importance of Business Accelerators and Seed Funds in screening and training in business, as well as their wider effects on the entrepreneurial environment. More info and related research papers: The Department of Finance at LSE is devoted to excellence in teaching and research in the full range of the subfields of finance including corporate finance, asset pricing theory, risk management, empirical analysis of capital markets, behavioural finance, portfolio analysis, derivatives pricing, microstructure and financ