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Welche Regionen profitieren von Venture Capital-Aktivitäten?

Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

Mit der Venture Capital (VC)-Finanzierung als Teil eines regionalen Innovationssystems sind Erwartungen verbunden, die Kommerzialisierung neuer Forschungsergebnisse in marktfähige Produkte in einer Region zu fördern. In Erwartung positiver Effekte eines solchen Kapitalzuflusses in eine Region...

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Money for novelty: The role of venture capital investments for innovation in young technology-based firms

Heger, Diana - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German … technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …

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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts: Is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

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What lures cross-border venture capital inflows?

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. According to a dataset of European and North-American countries, we find that countries with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock...

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Venture capital and internationalization

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Cross-border investments represent a substantial share of venture capital activities. We use a new and comprehensive dataset on worldwide investments to analyze the internationalization of venture capital financing. Our results from the perspectives of (i) venture capitalists, (ii) portfolio...

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The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry: Did Venture Capital run the Show?

Heneric, Oliver; Engel, Dirk; Champenois, Claire - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

The goal of this paper is to point out the role played by private equity investors (venture-capital companies and corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90?s. This analysis takes into account the different business models and...

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The Decision of Venture Capitalists on Timing and Extent of IPOs

Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

We analyze the venture capitalist's decision on the timing of the IPO, the offer price and the fraction of shares he sells in the course of the IPO. A venture capitalist may decide to take a company public or to liquidate it after one or two financing periods. A longer venture capitalist's...

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Zur Rolle von Beteiligungskapitalgebern in ihren Portfoliounternehmen: Eine ökonometrische Analyse

Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

Der deutsche Markt für Beteiligungskapital ist ein vergleichsweise junger Markt, so dass nur wenig Wissen bezüglich der Qualität der von den VCG geleisteten Managementunterstützung besteht. Ziel der Studie ist es, den Beitrag der VCG zum Wachstum und Überleben ihrer Portfoliounternehmen...

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You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs: the impact of venture capitalists on executive turnover

Heger, Diana; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We present evidence on venture capitalists? (VCs) impact on turnover of executives for a sample of nearly 47,000 German high-tech start-ups between 1995 and 2004. We confirm that the presence of VCs increases the probability of a change in the initial executive team. Additionally, we take a...

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