本文藉由觀察中國創業投資基金投入金額之變化,試圖探討影響中國大陸創業投資產業發展之因素,經由國內外期刊、文獻之歸納整理並加以判斷分析,本研究決定採用九個變數,並分類為三大群組,分別為:金融市場群組:IPO 總募集資金、併購案件總金額、併購案件總數量、併購案件平均溢價、資本市場以證券市場為中心相較於以銀行為中心的程度;政治因素群組:國家貪腐指數、專利 通過率;經濟因素群組:研究發展總費用、國內生產總值(GDP)。資料截取自 CEIC (中國經濟數據庫)與Bloomberg(彭博資訊系統),資料期間為 2006 年第一季至 2015 年第一季之季資料,先分析各別因素的歷史軌跡變化與原因,再以四個迴歸分析模型分別探討整體九個變數、金融市場群組、政治群組、與經濟群組對應 變數中國創業投資基金總投資金額的影響程度。 本研究結論包括:資本市場以證券市場為中心相較於以銀行為中心的程度、研究發展總費用與中國創業投資基金總投資金額有高度正相關。國家貪腐指數與中國創業投資基金總投資金額有高度負相關。IPO 總募集資金、併購案件總金額、 併購案件總數量、併購案件平均溢價、專利通過率、國內生產總額與中國創業投資基金總投資金額無顯著相關性。將自變數依性質分類為三大群組後,分別對應變數中國創業投資基金總投資金額進行迴歸分析,並比較其 Adjusted R Square,發現金融市場群組影響應變數程度最大,其次為經濟因素,影響最小的為政治因 素。 / This paper discusses the venture capital activity in China through observing changes in the investment volume in an attempt to explore the influential factors. This study applies nine factors which then were classified into three groups: financial market group, including capital raised through IPO, volume of M&A, deal counts of M&A, M&A deal average premium, and degree of market-centered financial system comparing to bank-centered; politics group, including corruption perception index, patent pass rate; economics group, including research and development expenditure, gross domestic product (GDP). Data were retrieved from CEIC and Bloomberg with duration from 2006-2015Q1, seasonal data. This study analyzes the historical trajectory of independent factors, following by four regression analysis, including the overall impact of nine independent variables, the impact of the financial market group, politics group, and economics group on the dependent variable: the total investment volume of venture capital funds in China. The findings include: degree of market-centered financial system comparing to bank-centered and the research and development expenditure have highly positive correlation with total investment volume of venture capital funds in China. Corruption Perception Index has highly negative correlation with total investment volume of venture capital funds in China. Capital raised through IPO, volume of M&A, deal counts of M&A, M&A deal average premium, patent pass rate, and gross domestic production have no significant correlation with the investment volume of venture capital funds in China. After classifying the factors into three groups including financial market factors, economics factors, and politics factors, following by the comparison of adjusted R Square, the study concludes that financial market group has the highest correlation with total investment volume of venture capital funds in China, with economics group as the second and politics group being the least correlated.

The amount of public money invested in the venture capital industry has increased sub-stantially over the last few decades. The goal is, in general, to facilitate growth in highly in-novative small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by securing their supply of capital in early stages. Hence, an important aspect of the effectiveness of public investment is wheth-er it increases the investees’ ability to attract additional funding. The process through which public investments can contribute to a better supply of capital to SMEs by more than just their own investment is commonly known as the catalysing or leverage effect of public in-vestment. In order to increase understanding of how this effect can be maximized, this study com-pares the amount of capital attracted to Swedish SMEs as a result of public fund-of-fund (FoF) investment to that of direct public investments. This study shows that: - FoFs are more effective in increasing the capital supply to SMEs in the market. - Public investments have a higher catalysing effect on the fund level than on the enterprise level. Hence, EUR 1 invested at the fund level has a larger positive impact for SMEs than EUR 1 invested at the enterprise level. - The investment quality of private venture capital (VC) investments is generally higher than that of direct public investments. Hence, FoFs allows public inves-tors to "free ride" on the skills of private VCs rather than setting up own struc-tures. / Masters Thesis

Syfte: Riskkapital har vart av stor betydelse för högteknologiska nyföretagande dock har antalet riskkapitalbolag minskat väldigt mycket sedan IT-bubblan sprack år 2000. Huvudsyftet i uppsatsen var därför att undersöka hur IT- och kommunikationsbranschen hanterar den minskade riskkapitalmarknaden. Delsyftet i uppsatsen undersöker vilken betydelse riskkapitalbolagen har på nystartade företag inom IT- och kommunikationsbranschen. Forskningsfrågorna i uppsatsen handlar om hur nyföretagande hanterar finansieringen, hur de väljer samt söker finansiering och hur de påverkas av konkurrenter och deras riskkapitalfinansieringar. Metod: Studien bygger på metodtriangulering med insamling av kvalitativ data genom tolv intervjuer och kvantitativ data genom årsredovisningar.  Resultat & slutsats: Av de tolv studerade företagen har fem företag fått riskkapital. Företagen har valt olika finansieringskällor och kontrollaversionen har haft betydelse vid valet att endast använda intern finansiering. Studien har visat att även finansieringskällor kan söka efter företag att investera i. Majoriteten av företagen med riskkapital har använt sig av externa parter vid sökningen. Merparten av företag har ej märkt av konkurrenters riskkapitalinvesteringar. / Purpose: Venture Capital has been of big importance for new ventures in high technology industries, but has decreased markedly in numbers since the end of the”dot-com” bubble. The main purpose of this thesis was to examine how the IT and communications industry manages the reduction in the private equity market. The second purpose was to study the importance of venture capital on new ventures in the IT and communication industry. The research questions concerns how new ventures manages their financing, how they choose financing and which method they use to pursuit it, as well as how competitors influence them and with their venture capital funding.  Method: The study was based on method triangulation with both qualitative data through interviews and quantitative data through researching annual reports.  Results and conclusions: Of the twelve researched new ventures has five gotten venture capital. The companies have chosen different financial sources and control aversion was the main cause of internal financing. This study shows that financing sources also can contact companies to invest in. The majority of businesses with venture capital has used external assistance when seeking venture capital investments. Most of the businesses have not been affected from competitors’ venture capital investments.

Rizikos kapitalo fondai visame pasaulyje sparčiai vystosi ir daro svarbią įtaką šalių ekonomikoms skatindami antreprenerystę ir padėdami kurti didžiules verslo bendroves. Šiame tyrime buvo siekiama išsiaiškinti kokią įtaką ekonomikoms gali daryti rizikos kapitalo fondai ir nuo kokių priežasčių priklauso jų investicijų dydis. Tyrime pastebėta, kad rizikos kapitalo įtaka šalių ekonomikoms gali pasireikšti per įvairiapusį įmonių augimo spartumą ir inovacijų skatinimą, o investicijų dydis, tirtas Baltijos šalių, Lenkijos ir Suomijos atžvilgiu priklauso nuo investicijos tipo, įmonės patentų skaičiaus ir finansinių rodiklių, tiesa, pastarieji labiau galioja Suomijos atžvilgiu. Susisteminti kitų autorių ir mokslininkų tyrimai pateikti pirmojoje dalyje, kurioje aiškinamasi kokią įtaką šalių ekonomikoms gali daryti rizikos kapitalo fondai ir nuo ko priklauso jų investicijų dydis. Antrojoje tyrimo dalyje aprašoma analizei naudojama metodika bei duomenys, taip pat pateikiamas tyrimo ribotumas. Paskutinėje, trečiojoje darbo dalyje yra pateikti ir aprašyti gauti tyrimo rezultatai. / Venture Capital funds are developing very fast across the world and their actions influence economies while stimulating entrepreneurship and creating big businesses. In this paper author tried to find out what influence venture capital funds does to country‘s economy and what reasons makes an impact on investment‘s size. It was noticed, that venture capital can make an impact on country‘s economy through overall business growth and innovation promotion, on the other hand, investment size, analysed in Baltic countries, Poland and Finland, depends on the type of investment, quantity of patents of the company and financial indicators, however, the last two applies more for Finland‘s case. Other authors and scientists researches are summarized in the first part of this paper, where it is investigated what impact venture capital funds can make to country‘s economy and what factors influence their investment size. Methodology, data and limitations of this research are presented and explained in the second part of this paper. The results are described in the last, third part of this paper.

It is generally well understood that venture capital (VC) is an important and significant source of financing for small firms. Questions revolving around the increased likelihood of a firm backed by Venture Capitalists (VCs) to be export oriented have yet to be fully explored. Responding to this research gap, a sample of Canadian VC backed firms is used to compare the performance of Canadian VC firms in terms of facilitating internationalization among their portfolio companies. The particular reference of this study is Export Development Canada (EDC), a crown corporation mandated to promote export among Canadian firms. This research finds that EDC as a VC investor and export-oriented consultant has no association with the increased probability of exporting. Also, stage of the investment does not show any relationship with internationalization. These results run contrary to previous speculation that syndication of VCs increases the probability of internationalization among portfolio firms.

In many developed countries angel capital investment is the main source of external financing for high growth early-stage entrepreneurial companies. In spite of its importance, research in the angel capital market is still very limited. This is partly due the fact that data on angel capital investment is rare and unsystematic. This dissertation attempts to learn more about this important but not well-understood angel capital market. In particular, the first essay looks at the relationship between angels and venture capitalists in financing start-up ventures. This essay juxtaposes a complements hypothesis – angel financing is a springboard for venture capital, against a substitutes hypothesis – angels and venture capital are distinct financing methods that ought not to be combined. The result shows that companies that obtain angel financing subsequently obtain less venture capital, and vice versa. On average venture capitalist make larger investments, but this alone cannot explain the substitutes pattern. In addition, this essay reports that companies funded by venture capital perform better than angel backed companies, as measured by successful exits or revenues. Mixing angel and venture capital funding tends to be associated with worse performance. The second essay studies the role of geographic distance between the angel investors and the investee companies on the angel investment performance. This essay conjectures four possible channels that can explain the relationship between distance and the return to angel investment. It shows that distance has a positive relationship with the return to angel investment. Examining the effect of distance across different categories of angel investors, across angel investor’s locations, and across company’s location, this essay finds evidence that this positive relationship is mainly driven by the “objectivity effect”, which suggests that distant investors can evaluate the prospect of a company more objectively than close-by investors, who tend to be more biased in their judgments. The third essay examines why entrepreneurs find it generally hard to find angel investors. This essay modifies the standard search model introduced by Pissarides to explain this phenomenon. In this model, angels hide to force entrepreneurs to engage in a costly search. The result shows that angel investors adopt the hiding strategy to screen out low-productivity entrepreneurs who would otherwise inundate angels. Interestingly, social surplus is often increased when angels hide, though in some circumstances surplus may fall. / Graduate / 0505 / danvo@uvic.ca

Problem: The increasing interest in academic, and general, entrepreneurship increases the need for venture capital. The venture capital is provided to the inventor by an external investor who gains financial or societal benefits from his investment. The increasing interest in entrepreneurship makes is interesting to understand the sources of power that influence the relationship between the investor and the inventor. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to indicate how different sources of power influence the relationship between inventors and investors in academic start-ups. Methodology: This study has been carried out with a qualitative approach. Data has mainly been collected from four interviews at three different companies. The interviews were complemented with previous research findings and laws from the book of laws. Findings: The empirical findings indicate that the investigated relation mainly is influenced by the expertise from the inventor during the early stages of the start-­up. This indicates that the expert power is the most significant source of power. KeyWords: Entrepreneurship, Academic Entrepreneurship, Start-­ups, Academic Start-ups, Investor relationship, Venture Capital, New Ventures, Spin-­off

Venture capital (VC) has been accepted to play an important role in encouraging of entrepreneurship, maintaining technological improvement and, urban and regional development in the country besides providing financial support for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) with high growth potential. This thesis analyzes the reasons of the limited venture capital investments in Turkey and the measures that should be taken in order to increase both the effectiveness of VC in maintaining urban and regional development and VC investments to SMEs. Furthermore, VC is emphasized to be an important model that can be efficient in solving the financing, management and technical problems of SMEs with high growth potential. In order to analyze the problems, a field research was conducted. Research consists of two parts. In the first part, the questionnaire was conducted with 100 SMEs in Ankara that are active in OSTIM so as to reveal the general characteristics of SMEs and the funds they use to solve their financial problems in start-up and expansion stages. SMEs are generally family run firms that have limited capital and whose owner is also the manager in the firm. Equity capital is the most important source that is used in the start-up and expansion stages by the firms. The rate of usage of subsidies like investment and export incentives and technology development support, credit guarantee fund and venture capital by these firms is low. Lack of knowledge, insufficiency of qualified staff and bureaucratic barriers are the most significant reasons of this situation. In the second part, interviews with venture capitalists or managers of 3 important VC firms that are active in Turkey come up. These interviews aimed to reveal the goal of VC firms, evaluation process of the applications and VC firms&rsquo / expectations from SMEs. VC firms face difficulties with the projects with no growth potential. Moreover, applicant firms do not have adequate staff and supplies in order to prepare the financial information for the application process, and this happens to be a crucial problem. According to the results of the field research, some suggestions are tried to be put forward in terms of the achievement of a more effective use of VC system in Turkey. In this regard, firstly, efficiency of subsidies-particularly institutions that provide R&amp / D supports- should be increased. Secondly, Credit Guarantee Fund should be strengthened in order to provide more entrepreneurs with guarantee support. And finally, establishment of a center that is to provide consultancy for applicant firms in their project development and application periods is suggested.

大中國區的興起，帶動全球的投資中國熱 其獨特經濟人文的發展對外人而言是一大挑戰 在大中國地區，如何找尋好的案源 對非中國人而言，文化語言的藩籬如何克服 如何透過複雜的關係網，確保好案源的建立 如何找出Deal sourcing 的最佳運作模式 根據過去十幾年來在中國投資的VC的經驗模式探討及分析 希望從經驗中歸納出重點來提升未來中國投資案的成功率 / “Greater China” is a term referring collectively to both the territories administered by the People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), and territories administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan and some neighboring islands). To foreigners, Greater China may seem like more or less a homogenous region, with people of seemingly common appearance, language (Mandarin or some variant of it), and culture. However, deep underlying differences exist between Taiwan and China. To give an example, while Confucian ethics and values are deeply ingrained in the Taiwanese mindset, such traditional values are almost non-existent under the mainland Chinese brand of social capitalism. Being able to understand and leverage these fine nuances in culture is a critical factor in successfully doing business in China. Indeed, in the fifteen years or so since Taiwanese VC’s have entered the Chinese market, they have gained valuable insight on the critical role that culture plays in originating successful deals. This paper will attempt to identify the best practices adopted by Taiwanese VC’s in successfully sourcing and landing VC deals in China.

My dissertation is focused on developing a better understanding of the technology and innovation strategies of corporations and their impacts on firm performance. I am particularly interested in corporate venture capital (CVC), which serves as a strategy for accessing external technology for corporate investors and as an alternative source of financing and complementary assets for start-ups. I have investigated the conditions under which corporate investors and start-ups achieve the strategic goals by establishing CVC ties, and on estimating the technological and financial gains created by the CVC ties. Specifically, I have concentrated on when and where CVC ties are established in order to maximize economic value. The former relates to a timing issue, whereas the latter is a space issue of CVC investments. In the first essay, I examine corporate investors' decisions to establish CVC ties and their subsequent strategic actions. Consistent with the real options perspective on CVC investments, I find that CVC investments can help corporate investors effectively search for and select future acquisition or licensing partners by reducing asymmetric information and uncertainty that may characterize markets for technology. Specifically, CVC investments facilitate the external acquisition of technology by substituting for a corporate investor's absorptive capacity, as reflected by its upstream research capabilities. CVC investments instead complement the portfolio of internally generated new products, since they allow highly productive corporate investors to shift their focus onto exploratory initiatives with the objective of selecting future technology and partners. Finally, CVC investments facilitate exploratory investments in distant technological areas that are subsequently integrated through licensing or acquisitions. These findings contribute to emerging research on the organization and financing patterns of external R&D activities. In the second essay, I investigate the nature of the relationship between technological spillovers and capital gains created by CVC investments for corporate investors. Using a simple equilibrium model and data from the global bio-pharmaceutical industry between 1986 and 2007, I find that these technological spillovers and capital gains are complements. This complementarity is enhanced when CVC investments are made in post-IPO and technologically diversified start-ups. Beyond providing a broad benchmark for heterogeneous returns on CVC investments, this study has important implications for corporate investors and start-ups. In particular, to the extent that capital gain is greatly determined by changes in the market values of start-ups, it implies that CVC investments can create value for start-ups as well as corporate investors. These mutual benefits can be greatly determined by when (e.g., post-IPO start-ups) and where (e.g., technologically diversified start-ups) CVC investments are made. In the third essay, I analyze the contextual factors that impact the probability of start-ups' obtaining financing through independent venture capitalists and corporate investors. The systematic empirical evidence based on a three-stage game theoretic model suggests that start-ups that possess better evaluated technology tend to be financed through independent venture capitalists, rather than corporate investors. In contrast, start-ups tend to be financed through corporate investors, rather than independent venture capitalists, when their intellectual properties are effectively protected and their research pipelines contain multiple products. These findings provide a theoretical basis to explain why several types of investors co-exist in the entrepreneurial financing market. Moreover, the existence of such determinants indicates that, although investors traditionally have been viewed as the powerful partner that dominates the investment decision, start-ups are also active decision makers in investment ties.