Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/172857 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) No. 603
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
This paper investigates a model where two corporate venture capital firms (CVCs) decide whether to finance a new venture stand-alone or together, called syndication. The CVCs obtain a cash flow if the venture succeeds. In addition, the venture has a positive or negative effect on an asset of the CVCs parental companies. This effect may differ among the parental companies. I show that the CVC faced with the weaker positive effect becomes the stand-alone investor only if the expected cash flow is low. Otherwise, in equilibrium, there are only syndicates or stand-alone investments of the CVC with the stronger positive effect. However, if one CVC faces a positive effect on its parental company's asset whereby the opponent faces a negative effect, then a syndicate is still possible. The model generates empirical predictions for syndicates consisting of several CVCs.
Subjects: 
Corporate Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Nonmonetary Support
Nature of Innovation
JEL: 
G24
M13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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