Access to finance for innovation: the role of venture capital and the stock market

Journal title ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE
Author/s Francesco Bogliacino, Matteo Lucchese
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/4
Language English Pages 19 P. 165-183 File size 177 KB
DOI 10.3280/POLI2011-004006
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Financial constraints for young and small firms can prevent them from contributing to innovation and the creation of new jobs. The paper analyzes two of the several institutional mechanisms implemented to overcome that hurdle: the development of the venture capital market and access to the stock market. The analysis is based on the information provided by two of the scoreboards used to monitor innovative activity in Europe: the IUS (Innovation Union Scoreboard) and the R&D Scoreboard. The former was used to study the determinants of venture capital/GDP intensity in Europe. The second was used to try to assess the stock market’s contribution to R&D investment. The results show that, in the first case, the venture capital market complements structural features such as R&D intensity and market capitalization, is more volatile, and seems uninfluenced by competition-adverse regulations; in the second case, the analysis indicated that unlisted SMEs are more research intensive.

Keywords: Venture capital, R&D, European policy, random effect, propensity score matching

Jel codes: M13, O31, O38

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Francesco Bogliacino, Matteo Lucchese, Access to finance for innovation: the role of venture capital and the stock market in "ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE " 4/2011, pp 165-183, DOI: 10.3280/POLI2011-004006