financing and buyouts by private equity investors on investment of portfolio firms in the UK and France - two countries with … higher investment levels and a lower dependence on internal funds after expansion financing. Buyouts financed by venture … capital companies are neither associated with a decrease in investment spending nor with an increase in the dependence on …

consists of two major parts. In the first part, we aim at measuring investment in intangibles at the sector level. We shed … light on differences across sectors but also compare these figures with investment in physical capital and with investment … intangible capital from 1995-2006 by 30%. Furthermore, results reveal differences in the investment patterns among the UK and …