This paper surveys the growing body of latest literature on task capital (VC) and personal equity (PE) and formulates an time table for destiny studies. specially, it covers and categorizes 314 articles which have regarded in pinnacle leading international journals on account that 2011 and points to regions that deserve deeper investigation. sixty seven.8% of these works deal exclusively with VC and 26.eight% deal completely with PE. the main “hot” subjects in VC and PE research are: (1) heterogeneity (e.g., in affiliation, revel in, recognition) in the VC and PE industries and its effects, (2) the causal hyperlink between VC and PE financing and numerous factors of corporation performance, which includes boom or innovation, (three) the performance of VC and PE finances and a way to measure it properly. inside the literature on VC, (4) internationalization and (5) the methods through which VC investors and marketers pick out and in shape with each other also are extraordinarily relevant subjects. most recent works (eighty one.2%) are empirical and strategies that aim at figuring out causal effects were getting tremendous. despite the fact that new sources of records were used and the ecu (and to a lesser extent Asian) VC and PE industries have been gaining ground in recent research, more than fifty two% of all empirical papers still depend upon US facts