Chapter 15. Investor Value-added
15.1. Introduction and Learning Objectives
Part IV consists of Chapters 15 to 18, and it considers the efficiency of venture capital investment in terms of investor value-added. Investor value-added may be viewed as involving the following issues:
- The relation between venture capital and private equity and innovative activity
- Contract terms and investor value-added
- Location of investee firms (e.g., intra- versus interprovincial)
- Optimal portfolio size/manager
- Investment duration
This chapter provides a brief overview of the issues pertaining to each of the preceding items. Further, in this chapter we provide a road map of items considered in more detail in Chapters 16 to 18.
15.2. Innovation and Efficiency ...
Get Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.