Abstract :
[en] After nearly two decades of US leadership during the 1980s and 1990s, are
Europe’s venture capital (VC) markets in the 2000s finally catching up
regarding the provision of financing and successful exits, or is the performance
gap as wide as ever? Are we amid an overall VC performance slump with no
encouraging news? We attempt to answer these questions by tracking over
40,000 VC-backed firms stemming from six industries in 13 European
countries and the US between 1985 and 2009; determining the type of exit – if
any – each particular firm’s investors choose for the venture.
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