Download This PaperNew Technology Assessment in Entrepreneurial Financing - Can Crowdfunding Predict Venture Capital Investments?
Kaminski, J., C. Hopp und T. Tykvová (2019), New Technology Assessment in Entrepreneurial Financing – Does Crowdfunding Predict Venture Capital Investments? Technological Forecasting and Social Change 139, 287-302.
23 Pages Posted: 26 Aug 2016 Last revised: 4 Jun 2019
Date Written: 2019
Abstract
Recent years have seen an upsurge of novel sources of new venture financing through crowdfunding (CF). We draw on 54,943 successfully crowdfunded projects and 3,313 venture capital (VC) investments throughout the period 04/2012-06/2015 to investigate, on the aggregate level, how crowdfunding is related to a more traditional source of entrepreneurial finance, venture capital. Granger causality tests support the view that VC investments follow crowdfunding investments. Cointegration tests also suggest a long-run relationship between crowdfunding and VC investments, while impulse response functions (IRF) indicate a positive effect running from CF to VC within two to six months. Crowdfunding seems to help VC investors in assessing future trends rather than crowding them out of the market.
Keywords: crowdfunding, venture capital, Granger causality, crowding out
JEL Classification: G30, G24, O3
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Tereza Tykvova
University of St. Gallen - Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance ( email )
Unterer Graben 21
St. Gallen, CH-9000
Switzerland
