The changing patterns of venture capital investments in Europe

Autor: Fabio Bertoni, Anita Quas, Francesca Tenca, Massimo G. Colombo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Popis: In this paper we analyse the changes in the patterns of investments for Venture Capital (VC) investors with different governance structures. We distinguish independent, corporate, bank- affiliated and governmental VC investors. Focusing on a sample of VC investments made in the period 1998-2014 in 28 EU-member countries and Israel, we compute specialization indexes for each investor type along five dimensions (age and industry of target, geographical distance; cross-border and syndicated investments) and compare their evolution across four time periods (booming internet bubble: 1998-2001, bursting post-bubble: 2002-2004, post bubble recovery: 2005-2007, global financial crisis: 2008-2010, and post global financial crisis 2011-2014). We find interesting trends in how investors with different governance structures changed their patterns of investment across time, highlighting the importance of considering the dynamic nature of the VC ecosystem.
Databáze: OpenAIRE