represent in the market, they contribute to increase productivity of the economy. The problems of financing the SME’s are … based on innovation. Private equity activity is in this regard a better mode of financing innovative enterprises added to …

The paper analyses the impact of private equity (PE) backed leveraged buyouts (LBOs) on innovation output (patenting … innovation activity is concentrated among private-to-private transactions with a 14% increase in the quality-adjusted patent … promote short-term cost-cutting at the expense of entrepreneurial investment opportunities with a long-term payoff. …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

. Innovation requires the exploration of new ideas with potential advantages but unknown probability of success. We show that it is … equity to innovation and creative destruction and also generates new predictions concerning the determinants of going public …

We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …

are generally small, high-tech firms that cannot finance investment internally and likely face severe external financing … maintain extremely high R&D investment ratios and to build substantial cash reserves. We also use GMM techniques that control … substantial impact on corporate investment in cash reserves and R&D, and a smaller but significant impact on investment in non …

Two eras can be distinguished in the history of innovation: era of inventor and era of researcher, even if they recover … two eras. During the first, own saving, family saving and help of associates were the only ways to finance innovation. In …

examines the work on venture capital investments in companies, looking at issues of selection, contracting, post-investment …