The government as venture capitalist: the long-run impact of the SBIR program

J Lerner - The Journal of Private Equity, 2000 - JSTOR
Government programs that finance small firms have attracted little empirical attention. This
article examines the largest US initiative, the Small Business Innovation Research program …

The government as venture capitalist: The long-run effects of the SBIR program

J Lerner - 1996 - nber.org
Public programs to provide early-stage financing to firms, particularly high-technology
companies, have become commonplace in the United States and abroad. The long-run …

State governments as financiers of technology startups: Evidence from Michigan's R&D loan program

B Zhao, R Ziedonis - Research Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
State governments in the United States often fund and support technology startups within
their borders. Yet little is known about the magnitude with which these place-based policy …

When does funding research by smaller firms bear fruit?: Evidence from the SBIR program

J Gans, S Stern - Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
This paper evaluates whether the relative concentration of funding for small, research-
oriented firms in a small number of high-technology industries is related to differences …

When bureaucrats meet entrepreneurs: the design of effectivepublic venture capital'programmes

J Lerner - The economic journal, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Recently public efforts to finance small high‐technology firms have proliferated. We review
the motivations for these efforts and make some preliminary observations about their design …

Financing innovation: Evidence from R&D grants

ST Howell - American economic review, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the
first large-sample, quasi-experimental evaluation of R&D subsidies. I use data on ranked …

Banks versus venture capital: Project evaluation, screening, and expropriation

M Ueda - The Journal of Finance, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Why do some start‐up firms raise funds from banks and others from venture capitalists? To
address this question, I study a model in which the venture capitalist can evaluate the …

Corporate venture capital and the creation of US public companies: The impact of sources of venture capital on the performance of portfolio companies

M Maula, G Murray - Creating value: Winners in the new …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The role of large corporations as financiers of technology‐based start‐ups has increased
dramatically during the last few years. Direct venture capital investments made by the …

Private Investor Participation and Commercialization Rates for Government‐sponsored Research and Development: Would a Prediction Market Improve the …

AN Link, JT Scott - Economica, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
An objective of the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme is the private
sector commercialization of funded R&D projects. However, our estimate of the actual or …

Leveraging entrepreneurship through private investments: does gender matter?

D Gicheva, AN Link - Small Business Economics, 2013 - Springer
Using project data from a random sample of Phase II research awards from the National
Institutes of Health SBIR program, we estimate the relative probability that woman-owned …