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The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry : Did Venture Capital run the show?

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dc.creator Heneric, Oliver
dc.creator Engel, Dirk
dc.creator Champenois, Claire
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:00:35Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:00:35Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18567
dc.identifier ppn:38927108X
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18567
dc.description We answer the questions, how many firms acting in the modern German biotechnology industry are funded by venture capital companies (VCC) as well as equity funded by corporate investors. The theory suggests a high relevance of VCC as venturing partner of high-tech projects. In addition we argue that corporate investors are a venturing partner of firms with high-risk projects to a lower extent. Incumbents,however, are confronted with some opportunities in the low-risk area of the biotechnology industry to secure an optimal supply for the current product pipeline.Our empirical results emphasize a crucial importance of venture capital as financial resource for high-risk projects: whereas 42 percent of all healthcare developer in the early stage are venture-backed firms, only a small share of low-risk projects received venture capital. The results for corporate investors are reversible.Fewer high-tech projects and more low-risk projects compared to VCC are equity financed by corporate investors. The econometric analysis suggests that the observed pattern is mainly driven by the level of project risk and hence, supports all our hypotheses.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation RWI Discussion Papers 16
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject C25
dc.subject L21
dc.subject G32
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Biotechnology
dc.subject Start-ups
dc.subject Venture Capital
dc.subject Discrete Choice
dc.subject Biotechnische Industrie
dc.subject Unternehmensgründung
dc.subject Risikokapital
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry : Did Venture Capital run the show?
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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