Governments around the world have set up governmental venture capital (GVC) funds, and
are increasingly doing so, with the aims of fostering the development of a private venture …

This paper explores whether and how governmental venture capital investors (GVCs) spur
invention and innovation in young biotech companies in Europe. To gauge invention we …

This paper examines the impact of government versus private independent venture capital
(VC) backing on the exit performance of entrepreneurial firms. Our analyses are based on …

Entrepreneurial finance literature is largely segmented. Different streams of the academic
literature between entrepreneurship and finance have become segmented for reasons of …

Government venture capital (GVC) funds have been a common policy initiative in European
countries to overcome funding gaps in the promotion of early-stage ventures. In this work …

This book deals with risk capital provided for established firms outside the stock market,
private equity, which has grown rapidly over the last three decades, yet is largely poorly …

We study the employment and sales growth of entrepreneurial ventures that have received a
government-sponsored participative loan (PL), a hybrid form of financing between debt and …

The paper analyses the impact of private equity (PE) backed leveraged buyouts (LBOs) on
innovative output (patenting). Using a sample of 407 UK deals we find that LBOs have a …

While the institutional logics perspective has been applied to explore various empirical
contexts, less is known about how different organizations respond differentially to the …

We empirically compare the contributions of venture capital (VC) and private equity backed
firms, including those backed by government subsidized innovation investment funds (IIFs) …