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

Francesco Bogliacino and Matteo Lucchese

ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE, 2011, vol. 2011/4, issue 4, 165-183

Abstract: 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&S; politica europea; effetti casuali; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M13 O31 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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