Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--And What to Do about It

By Josh Lerner. 2009

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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship (2020, background): “Evidence of the importance of relationship banking is found in Berger and Udell (1995) and Petersen and Rajan (1994) and more recently in Jiangli et al.”
Does governmental venture capital spur invention and innovation? Evidence from young European biotech companies (2015, background): “More systematic research in this area is needed (e.g., Lerner, 2009).”
Entrepreneurship in China: An overview (2014, background): “Research is required to explore how to remove the obstacles and improve the incentives for entrepreneurs to flourish (Lerner, 2009).”
Financing High-Growth Firms: The Role of Angel Investors (2011, background): “This requires creating the proper incentives and supporting the development of the necessary quality, skills and experience in the venture firms to match international norms (Lerner 2009).”
ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS AND GROWTH ORIENTED ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2014, background): “It was established by the Israeli government in 1992 explicitly to bring the investment expertise and contacts to Israel from foreign (mainly US) venture capitalists (Lerner, 2009).”
Founder's human capital, external investment, and the survival of new high-technology ventures (2010, background): “here is considerable interest among governments worldwide n encouraging the growth of high-technology, venture capitalacked ventures (Lerner, 2009).”
Developing and governing entrepreneurial ecosystems: the structure of entrepreneurial support programs in Edinburgh, Scotland (2016, background): “…(ESOs) are relatively common — it is rare to find a region in a developed economy without some sort of startup incubator or entrepreneurship training forum — their effectiveness has been questioned (Totterman and Sten, 2005, Lerner, 2009, Qian et al., 2011, Amezcua et al., 2013).”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, background): “Indeed, the dynamics of micro-firms are recognised to “differ markedly from those associated with their high-potential counterparts” (Lerner 2009, 6).”
Governmental venture capital in Europe: Screening and certification (2016, background): “…of GVC on the performance (i.e., growth, innovation and efficiency) of their portfolio companies is somewhat limited (e.g., Grilli and Murtinu 2014; Bertoni and Tykvovà 2015; Alperovych et al. 2015), which raises doubts regarding the effectiveness of this type of financing (e.g., Lerner 2009).”
Public policy to promote entrepreneurship: a call to arms (2016, neutral): “For further illustrations, see Parker (2007) and Lerner (2009) We mostly discuss the pros and cons of policies affecting all people interested in entrepreneurship.”