Learning patterns in venture capital investing in new industries

Dimo Dimov, Pablo Martin de Holan and Hana Milanov

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2012, vol. 21, issue 6, 1389-1426

Abstract: Using an organizational learning perspective, we link the decision by venture capital (VC) firms to invest early in a new high-technology industry to three experiential learning mechanisms: the familiarity associated with accumulation of early funding decisions, the shaping or imprinting effect of the firm's very first such decision, and the decay or "forgetting" associated with the dormancy of prior such decisions. We find support for these learning patterns using data on the investments made by US VC firms between 1962 and 2004. Copyright 2012 The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.

Date: 2012
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