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ABSTRACT We examine the challenge entrepreneurial companies face in going beyond the start-up phase and growing into large successful companies. We examine the long-term financing of these so-called scale-up companies, focusing on the United States, Europe and Canada. We first provide a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges of financing scale-ups. We then show some data about the various aspects of financing scale-ups in the US, Europe and Canada. Finally we raise the question of long-term public policies to support the creation of a better scale-up environment. From start-up to scale-up: examining public policies for the financing of high- growth ventures Gilles Duruflé (gilles.durufl[email protected]) is President of the QCC Public Policy Forum on Venture Capital and Innovation. omas Hellmann ([email protected]), Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford. Karen Wilson ([email protected]) is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. is paper is forthcoming in 2018 in Mayer, C., S. Micossi, M. Onado, M. Pagano and A. Polo (eds) Finance and Investment: e European Case, Oxford University Press is paper was developed through CEPR’s Restarting European Long-Term Investment Finance (RELTIF) Programme, which is funded by Emittenti Titoli. Financial support was also provided by CEPR, Assonime, the John Fell and Saïd Foundations. e authors would like to thank roundtable participants at the 1st Oxford Entrepreneurship Policy Roundtable (May 2015), Bruegel (September 2015), e Quebec City Conference Tech Innovation Platform (March 2016), the Oxford roundtable for the Barclays scale-up report (May 2016), and the RELTIF workshops in Milan (January 2016) and Capri (June 2016), including our discussants José Liberti and Andrew Ellul, for their many helpful insights and suggestions. Finally the authors sincerely and gratefully thank the research assistants David Cartwright, Denis Frydrych, Carolyn Hicks, Kaushal Inna and Christian Rauch. WORKING PAPER | ISSUE 04 | 2017 GILLES DURUFLÉ, THOMAS HELLMANN AND KAREN WILSON

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ABSTRACT

We examine the challenge entrepreneurial companies face in going beyond the start-up phase and growing into large successful companies. We examine the long-term financing of these so-called scale-up companies, focusing on the United States, Europe and Canada. We first provide a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges of financing scale-ups. We then show some data about the various aspects of financing scale-ups in the US, Europe and Canada. Finally we raise the question of long-term public policies to support the creation of a better scale-up environment.

From start-up to scale-up: examining public policies for the financing of high-growth ventures

Gilles Duruflé ([email protected]) is President of the QCC Public Policy Forum

on Venture Capital and Innovation. Thomas Hellmann ([email protected]),

Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford. Karen Wilson ([email protected]) is a

Senior Fellow at Bruegel.

This paper is forthcoming in 2018 in Mayer, C., S. Micossi, M. Onado, M. Pagano and A. Polo

(eds) Finance and Investment: The European Case, Oxford University Press

This paper was developed through CEPR’s Restarting European Long-Term Investment

Finance (RELTIF) Programme, which is funded by Emittenti Titoli. Financial support was also

provided by CEPR, Assonime, the John Fell and Saïd Foundations.

The authors would like to thank roundtable participants at the 1st Oxford Entrepreneurship

Policy Roundtable (May 2015), Bruegel (September 2015), The Quebec City Conference Tech

Innovation Platform (March 2016), the Oxford roundtable for the Barclays scale-up report

(May 2016), and the RELTIF workshops in Milan (January 2016) and Capri (June 2016),

including our discussants José Liberti and Andrew Ellul, for their many helpful insights and

suggestions. Finally the authors sincerely and gratefully thank the research assistants David

Cartwright, Denis Frydrych, Carolyn Hicks, Kaushal Inna and Christian Rauch.

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Other 21% 24% 15% 19% 12% 21% 20% 19% 27%

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