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Public subsidies and the sources of venture capital
Berger, Marius; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2020
Research suggests that public subsidies for newly founded firms have a positive effect on follow-on financing, in particular, Venture Capital (VC). This study differentiates between Government VC, Independent VC, Corporate VC, and Business Angels and shows that public subsidies are not relevant...
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Founder personality and start-up subsidies
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023
Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...
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Do company builders create jobs? : examining the rise of incubation finance in Germany
Scheuplein, Christoph; Kahl, Julian - 2017
-term employment and corporate affiliation. This article examines the economic impact of company builders in Germany compared with … other venture capital (VC) investor types on the basis of employment trends in the portfolio companies from 2011 to 2015. It … is shown that company builders promote more dynamic employment growth than do other types of investors. This finding …
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Survival of the fittest in cities : agglomeration, selection, and polarisation
Behrens, Kristian (contributor);  … - 2008
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Financing and advising early stage startups : the effect of angel investor subsidies
Berger, Marius; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2021
In recent years governments around the world have introduced policies to stimulate investments in early stage entrepreneurial companies, in particular investments by Angel investors. In this paper we study whether introducing subsidies to Angel investors has effects on startups’ access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622932
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The capital gains tax : a curse but also a blessing for venture capital investment
Bock, Carolin; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
Our study analyzes the effect of the capital gains tax on the individual investment decisions of venture capitalists. By doing so, we are able to study the decisions for a sample of 76,852 funding rounds in 32 countries from 2000 to 2012. Our results support the predictions of the theoretical...
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Measuring the spillovers of venture capital
Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
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Do tax loss restrictions distort venture capital funding of start-ups?
Bührle, Anna Theresa - 2021 - This version: January 13th, 2021
significant changes in turnover, employment, or the product portfolio). This restriction could threaten accumulated loss …
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How do entrepreneurial portfolios respond to income taxation?
Fossen, Frank M.; Rees, Ray; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; … - 2017
into entrepreneurship, we use changes in entry regulation into skilled trades. Estimation results are consistent with the …
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2024
consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes …, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design …
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