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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona and Lippert, Steffen and Norback, Pehr-Johan and Persson, Lars (2007): Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information and Ownership in the Innovation Process.

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Abstract

This paper constructs a model where entrepreneurial innovations are sold into oligopolistic industries and where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We first show that aggressive development of a basic innovation by better informed venture-backed firms is used as a signaling device to enhance the sale price of the innovation. We then show that incumbents can undertake early, preemptive, acquisitions to prevent such signaling driven overinvestment, despite the risk of buying a non-productive innovation. Therefore, to exist in equilibrium, venture capitalists must be sufficiently more efficient in selecting innovation projects, otherwise preemptive acquisitions will take place.

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