Access to the Corporate Investors' Complementary Resources: A Leverage for Innovation in Biotech Venture Capital-Backed Companies

How Do Venture Capital Investors Add Value To Portfolio Companies?

Emerging growth companies are always eager for capital to finance growth. Capital in the monetary sense is in the forefront of every entrepreneur’s mind when it comes to seeking funding from venture capital and private equity investors. And for good reasons. Without the necessary capital, it is hard for an enterprise to build up its business. For any business to grow, it needs to hire the right...

Finance , Innovation & Growth ( FINNOV ) Innovation in Venture - Capital Backed Clean - Technology Firms in the UK

Corporate Venture Capital and

In this paper, we focus on the potential innovation benefits to corporate venture capital, i.e. equity investments in entrepreneurial ventures by incumbent firms. In particular, we ask do firms that invest corporate venture capital learn about and appropriate new technologies and practices from those ventures they invest. Our investigation builds on two theoretical pillars. First, incumbent fir...

Corporate venture capital portfolios and firm innovation ¬リニ

Field Editor: D. Shepherd This study examines the conditions under which portfolios of corporate venture capital (CVC) relationships influence corporate investor innovation performance. We investigate this question using longitudinal data on CVC investment portfolios of 40 telecommunications equipment manufacturers. We find an inverted U-shaped effect of portfolio diversity on corporate investo...

Investment, Duration, and Exit Strategies for Corporate and Independent Venture Capital-backed Start-ups

We propose a model of investment, duration, and exit strategies for start-ups backed by venture capital (VC) funds that accounts for the high level of uncertainty, the asymmetry of information between insiders and outsiders, and the discount rate. Our analysis predicts that start-ups backed by corporate VC funds remain for a longer period of time before exiting and receive larger investment amo...