Luis Barbosa

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About Luis Barbosa

A dedicated professional currently responsible for the “new projects and investments” area of a Portuguese holding company which has investments mainly in the health care industry. With an extensive experience of more than twenty years mainly in the financial services, especially in corporate finance, investment banking and private equity areas, and with extensive work in several non-financial industries, startups and entrepreneurship and charities.PhD in Business Administration – specialization in finance. PhD Thesis: “The role of signaling in the external financing of nascent firms".Researcher at the Center for Economics and Finance of the University of Porto (cef.up).Research Interests: corporate finance; the financing structure of early-stage firms; information asymmetries; knowledge based assets, such us patents and promotors' prior experience; intellectual property; innovation; entrepreneurship; startups’ signaling.