Innovation in Venture Capital

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the broad and challenging topic of “Innovation in Venture Capital” and includes novel research on the use of new solutions and ways to enhance venture capital financing to reach a wider audience and to have a stronger impact on the GDP at large. The success of venture capital is based on its great capability of changing and transforming its characteristics to continuously find new and efficient solutions for financing entrepreneurs and new ventures. The COVID-19 crisis highlights the great need for more equity investing to impact GDP development globally. Corporate venture capital, search funds, club deals, incubators, pledge funds, business angels, and venture philanthropy represent the expanding variety of ways (new and innovative on the one hand, and more traditional on the other hand) to join with and contribute to the venture capital industry. It is also important to acknowledge the role of policymakers, as they are deeply involved in creating incentives to sustain equity investment for entrepreneurs and new ventures.

Theoretical and empirical articles on the application of novel venture capital techniques to generate IRR for investors, combine IRR with social impacts, enhance the growth of new ventures and reduce their mortality risk, and sustain entrepreneurs are welcome.

Contributions focusing on the comparison of IRR and of the EBITDA growth between well-established venture capital solutions (i.e., funds) and new solutions such as search funds, corporate ventures, and club deals are encouraged, as are contributions analyzing the impact of tax incentives (or regulatory mechanisms) in enhancing venture capital investment.

Prof. Dr. Stefano Caselli
Guest Editor

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• Investment performance
• VC funds
• Corporate venture capital
• Search funds
• Pledge funds
• Business angels and incubators
• Tax incentives