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...

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...

Investment trajectories of new enterprises are a largely neglected but important issue of new firms' business behavior. This paper debuts in showing robust evidence of new venture investment time patterns by using investment time series of 4.733 new businesses. Based on a fixed effects nonlinear...

The objective of our paper is to investigate how the access to finance affects the creation of new business in EU, by identifying the relationship between several indicators, measuring the access to finance, the specifics of business environment, and the dynamics of new business creation. Our...

In this paper we measure knowledge spillovers arising from venture-capital financed companies on the patenting activities of other companies and compare them to spillovers from established firms. We develop a novel measure to to identify the appropriate spillover pool based on backward citations...

This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm's equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...