A Comparative View on Venture Capital Funding in the US and the EU
A Comparative View on Venture Capital Funding in the US and the EU

Summary/Abstract: It is accepted worldwide that entrepreneurial activity is the engine of all economies. Most of the useful things and technologies that we take for granted today come from the ideas of visionary entrepreneurs. In the US the entrepreneurship sector has a long tradition, boosted by the large venture capital available. At the EU level, there is now a constant objective to catch with the US ecosystem. The objective of this paper is to compare the two ecosystems through a set of secondary data. We will propose a regression model that demonstrates the link between the US and the EU in terms of venture capital funding. The conclusion of the research states that, while the EU ecosystem grew significantly in the last period, the superiority of the US ecosystem is still evident.

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