Knowledge Capital and Venture Capital Investments: New Evidence from European Panel Data

Schertler Andrea
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Schertler Andrea: University of Kiel, Chair of Finance,Kiel, Germany

German Economic Review, 2007, vol. 8, issue 1, 64-88

Abstract: Countries with a high amount of knowledge capital are likely to have higher volumes of venture capital (VC) investments because more researchers come up with innovative business ideas that require venture capital finance. Using panel data techniques, the paper finds evidence that VC investments depend strongly on the countries’ knowledge capital measured by the number of patents, or the number of R&D researchers, or gross domestic expenditures on R&D. In addition, the paper analyzes whether government-financed knowledge capital fulfills a special role for VC investments. It finds only weak evidence that VC investments depend, with a delay of several years, on government-financed knowledge capital.

Keywords: VC investments; knowledge capital; Western Europe; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2007.00134.x

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