Executive forum: early stage finance and corporate venture—two worlds apart?

Rudy Aernoudt and Amparo San José

Venture Capital, 2003, vol. 5, issue 4, 277-286

Abstract: Start-ups and early stage ventures are facing more and more financial constraints. The lack of second round financing substantially reduces the potential of patent applications from spin-offs and other early stage ventures. On the other hand, investing in new companies provides large companies with access to new technologies and future strategic advantages. So why are large companies not prominent in making seed stage investments? Is there any possible action to increase these investments? In order to address these issues, the paper takes a closer look at corporate venture capital, how large companies invest, the size of their investments and importance in the supply chain and what could be done in order to increase their role in seed investments.

Date: 2003
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1369106032000128440 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:veecee:v:5:y:2003:i:4:p:277-286

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/TVEC20

DOI: 10.1080/1369106032000128440

Access Statistics for this article

Venture Capital is currently edited by Colin Mason and Richard T. Harrison

More articles in Venture Capital from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().