This paper analyses the factors that drive the dynamics of French new technology-based and venture-backed companies, using a hand-collected database with 216 companies created between 1998 and 2005. The Venture Capital (VC) firms can choose between three outcomes: the company exits from their...

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...