Government sponsored versus private venture capital: Canadian evidence
This paper investigates the relative performance of enterprises backed by government-sponsored venture capitalists and private venture capitalists. While previous studies focus mainly on investor returns, this paper focuses on a broader set of public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods, including web-crawlers, are used to assemble a near-comprehensive data set of Canadian venture-capital backed enterprises. The results indicate that enterprises financed by government-sponsored venture capitalists underperform on a variety of criteria, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and M&As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It is important to understand whether such underperformance arises from a selection effect in which private venture capitalists have a higher quality threshold for investment than subsidized venture capitalists, or whether it arises from a treatment effect in which subsidized venture capitalists crowd out private investment and, in addition, provide less effective mentoring and other value-added skills. We find suggestive evidence that crowding out and less effective treatment are problems associated with government-backed venture capital. While the data does not allow for a definitive welfare analysis, the results cast some doubt on the desirability of certain government interventions in the venture capital market.
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2010
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Authors: | Brander, James A. ; Egan, Edward ; Hellmann, Thomas |
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University of Chicago Press |
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Type of publication: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Notes: | Brander, James A., Egan, Edward and Hellmann, Thomas (2010) Government sponsored versus private venture capital: Canadian evidence. In: Lerner, Josh and Schoar, Antoinette, (eds.) International Differences in Entrepreneurship. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 275-320. ISBN 978-0-226-47309-3 |
Source: | BASE |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011426821
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