TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of Study
1.2 Statement of Problems
1.3 Research Objectives
1.4 Research Question
1.5 Research Hypothesis
1.6 Scope of Study
1.7 Significance of study
1.8 Limitation of study
1.9 Definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Literature Review
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 Research methodology
3.1 Research Design
3.2 Population of study
3.3 Sampling Design and Procedure
3.4 Data Collection Instrument
3.5 Administration of Data Collection Instrument
3.6 Methods of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 Data Presentation and Analysis
4.1 Data Presentation
4.2 Test of Hypothesis
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
References
Questionnaire
ABSTRACT
The study venture capital financing and performance of small and medium enterprises in Akwa Ibom aimed at finding the relationship between venture capital financing and performance of small and medium enterprises in Akwa Ibom State other objectives of the study includes; to evaluate the benefit of venture capital to SMEs performance, to evaluate the level of venture capital accruing to SMEs in akwa ibom state, to evaluate the performance of SMEs in the year 2001- 2015, to determine the relationship between venture capital and SMEs performance, the study made use of the data obtained from the CBN statistical bulletin 2016. Ordinary least square regression was used to test the hypothesis. The study found out that there is significant relationship between venture capital financing and performance of small and medium enterprises in Akwa Ibom State. The performance of SMEs was the same for the year 1999 and 2014. SMEs experienced the highest performance in the 2012 with a performance rate of 98.9. The study then concluded that there is a statistically significantly strong positive relationship between venture capital financing and the performance of small and medium scale enterprises in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. Proper recommendation were made to enhance the interest of researchers for further study of venture capital financing and the performance of small and medium scale enterprises in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.