Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth

By Sampsa Samila, Olav Sorenson. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Is green the new gold? Venture capital and green entrepreneurship (2016, unknown): “participating at start-up competitions) (Samila and Sorenson 2011).”
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, unknown): “There are often four-fold or larger differences in entrepreneurship rates across U.S. cities (e.g., Glaeser et al., 2015), and those for venture capital are even sharper (e.g., Samila and Sorenson, 2011).”
Determinants of Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments in Emerging and Developed Economies: The Effects of Relational and Institutional Trust (2015, unknown): “It has been established by extant research that VCs not only promote innovative activities (Kortum and Lerner 2000; Samila and Sorenson 2010, 2011), but they also provide additional value-added support to enable innovative products or services to be rapidly brought to market (Black and Gilson 1998;…”
A comparison of the effect of angels and venture capitalists on innovation and value creation (2016, background): “…(2012) use a similar approach to study patenting rates in European industries and regions, and conclude there is a weak link with VC investment.6 Samila and Sorenson (2011) demonstrate that aggregate regional VC investment influences patenting rates in US metropolitan areas.7 There has been…”
Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2015, unknown): “Start-up firms are particularly difficult to finance because typically, their prospects are extremely uncertain, they lack tangible assets that can be used as collateral, and they face severe information problems (Hall and Lerner 2010).”
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms (2021, background): “We now have clear evidence that VC activity has a causal effect in fostering entrepreneurial companies (Kortun and Lerner, 2000; Samila and Sorenson, 2011) and does not simply “chase deals” (Gompers and Lerner, 1998).”
Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation (2013, unknown): “Venture Capital (VC) has been a central source of finance for commercializing radical innovations in the US economy over the past several decades (Kortum and Lerner, 2000, and Samila and Sorenson, 2011).”
How does governmental versus private venture capital backing affect a firm's efficiency? Evidence from Belgium (2015, background): “At the macroeconomic level, Samila and Sorenson (2011) document a highly positive impact of VC supply on business creation, employment, and aggregate income in the USA.”
Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2019, background): “1 Under certain conditions (favourable institutions, in particular) and in specific contexts (generally, higher income countries), entrepreneurial activity has indeed been shown to increase economic growth and employment, and reduce poverty and inequality (Galindo and Mendez, 2014; Kimhi, 2010; Krit”
Has Digital Financial Inclusion Narrowed the Urban-Rural Income Gap: The Role of Entrepreneurship in China (2021, background): “Starting businesses cannot only promote economic development but also provide a large number of jobs [58,59], which plays an important role in narrowing the urban-Sustainability rural income gap.”
Agglomeration and Innovation (2014, unknown): “Matouschek and Robert-Nicoud (2005) 10 Samila and Sorenson (2011) provide evidence that VC investment has positive growth spillovers at the MSA level in the United States, but there is much more research that can be done on how VC activity connects with local economic development.”
Institutions and Entrepreneurship Quality (2018, background): “…2006; Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson, 2001), personal bankruptcy (Armour & Cumming, 2008), resource endowment (Lin, 2011), availability of finance (Samila & Sorenson, 2011; Cumming & Zhang, 2016; Cole et al. 2016), availability of knowledge (Polyhart & Moliterno, 2011) and entrepreneurial…”
Accelerating Entrepreneurs and Ecosystems: The Seed Accelerator Model (2016, background): “For example, while research has shown that an increase in VC allocation to a region can have a direct impact on economic growth (Samila and Sorenson 2011) and innovation (Kortum and Lerner 2000), less is known about the policies and interventions that shift VCs’ supply preferences across regions.”
Does venture capital really foster innovation (2014, background): “The studies by Bertoni et al. (2011) and Samila and Sorenson (2011) are the exception yet they do not investigate the impact of VC on innovation per se but rather on the number of firm start-ups or firm performance.”
Venture Capital as a Catalyst to Commercialization (2010, methodology): “We used the instrument proposed by Samila and Sorenson (2011), which exploits the fact that institutional investors generally use a fixed asset allocation ratio to determine the distribution of their investments over asset classes – that is, they cut their investment pie in slices, such as half for…”