L’impatto dei programmi pubblici a supporto del Venture Capital: Il caso del Regno Unito

The paper assesses the impact of the publicly-backed funds created to enable new and high-tech companies to obtain VC (venture capital) to meet their funding require- ments. It describes the main approaches used to perform an evaluation of this type and an application related to the experience of the United Kingdom. The analyses are based on a sample of six hundred and fifty companies financed by public and private VC funds in the United Kingdom in the 1998-2007 period.