Institutional Support for Investment in New Technologies: The Role of Venture Capital Institutions in Developing Countries

Sunil Mani and Anthony Bartzokas

No 2002-04, UNU-INTECH Discussion Paper Series from United Nations University - INTECH

Abstract: An important component of this institutional framework supporting investment in new technologies is venture capital institutions. A group of developing countries, especially from Asia has been rather successful in establishing and nurturing this way of financing new technologies. The present paper attempts to survey the efforts of these countries towards using venture capital institutions as financiers of new technologies. In specific terms, the paper, based essentially on secondary source material, maps out the ways in which these countries have gone about promoting venture capital based new technology firms. In addition, we analyse the VC investments in these countries in terms of stage, technology and source. The paper also develops an index of venture capital development across the selected developing countries. The index allows the ranking of the VC industry in any particular country according to its level of development

Keywords: Venture Capital; Innovation; Initial Public Offerings; IPOs; Technology Financing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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