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Record W2168718918

The Indirect Costs of Venture Capital in Canada

2005· preprint· en· W2168718918 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Cécile Carpentier, Jean‐Marc Suret

Bibliographic record

VenueÉrudit documents and data repository (Érudit Consortium, University of Montreal) · 2005
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicPrivate Equity and Venture Capital
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVenture capitalBusinessEquity (law)FinanceCommercializationMoral hazardEconomicsMarket economyIncentivePolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Certains analystes et décideurs politiques considèrent que la croissance des nouvelles entreprises technologiques est contrainte par une offre insuffisante de capital. Au Canada, comme dans d'autres juridictions, les pouvoirs publics sont intervenus pour corriger cette lacune des marchés en augmentant l'offre de capital. Toutefois, la plupart des chercheurs défendent que cette lacune est essentiellement due aux problèmes d'asymétrie informationnelle, qui touchent particulièrement les entreprises technologiques. Les problèmes d'agence et d'anti-sélection qui en découlent rendent l'obtention de capital longue et coûteuse. Dans la présente étude, nous étudions les coûts et délais associés à l'obtention de capital de risque par douze entreprises technologiques, au cours de 18 rondes de financement distinctes. L'étude est menée au Québec, où l'offre de capital de risque est particulièrement abondante. Nous observons que les coûts associés à l'obtention du capital sont considérables et de nature à pénaliser les entreprises, notamment au cours des rondes initiales de financement. L'intervention gouvernementale classique, qui consiste à augmenter l'offre de capital, semble donc largement inefficace. D'autres types d'intervention, qui viseraient à encadrer et aider les dirigeants dans la recherche de fonds, devraient être étudiés.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.114
Threshold uncertainty score0.828

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0060.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.196
Teacher spread0.185 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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