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Does a VC’s Commitment Lead to Improved Investment Outcomes? Evidence From Climate Startups

Burt, Aaron; Harford, Jarrad V. T.; Stanfield, Jared R.; … - 2022

We assess whether a VC’s intrinsic commitment to a startup affects investment performance. We proxy for climate change commitment using the political contributions to democrats of the lead VC person on a deal. We find investments by democrats in climate-related startups have 8% higher...

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Is Green the New Gold? Venture Capital and Green Entrepreneurship

Mrkajic, Boris - 2017

We test whether born-to-be-green represents a signal toward potential venture capital (VC) investors on a sample of Italian, independent, unlisted, high-tech entrepreneurial firms. We employ several identification strategies by controlling for the major potential signals, and the alleged...

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Start-ups und Venture Capital in Deutschland : bringt der Zukunftsfonds neue Schubkraft für die Gründerkultur?

Röhl, Klaus-Heiner - 2021

Dieses Policy Paper zeigt die Entwicklung von Gründungen und Start-ups in Deutschland auf und stellt nach einem Blick auf die internationalen Venture-Capital-Märkte den Zukunftsfonds vor, mit dem die Bundesre-gierung die Start-up-Finanzierung auf eine neue Grundlage stellen möchte. Während...

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Are Start-ups Funded by Public Venture Capital Different? New Cross-Country Evidence from Micro-Data

Breschi, Stefano; Johnstone, Nick; Menon, Carlo - 2021

Given the sizeable amount of public investments in venture capital (VC) in many countries, an emerging empirical literature investigates the impact of government venture funds on firm performance. We reassess the key findings of this literature using a new database on innovative start-ups and VC...

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Strategic Venturing in the Global Medical Device Industry : Corporate Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

Winston Smith, Sheryl - 2015

goals. In high-tech industries CVCs may use direct equity investment to stimulate innovation that is directly relevant to … the investing firms' innovation efforts. At the same time, CVC is also used for strategic goals which may include blocking … and innovation performance by startup companies in relation to the investing firm. I provide project level evidence that …

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Global award for entrepreneurship research

Henrekson, Magnus (contributor); … - 2008

criteria for the selection of Prize candidates and Award Winning contributions. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Research …

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The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Henrekson, Magnus; Lundström, Anders - 2019

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...

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