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Government as Venture Capital Catalyst: Pitfalls and Promising Approaches

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  • Timothy Bates

    (Wayne State University)

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Former President Bill Clinton’s New Markets Initiative includes a proposal to create companies that will invest venture capital into small firms that operate in low-income areas. Important elements of this proposal are essentially recycled ideas that worked badly when implemented back in the 1970s by the U.S. Small Business Administration. This study identifies failed concepts being built into present and proposed venture-capital community development financial institutions. Concrete suggestions are offered that may circumvent building structural deficiencies into the emerging generation of community development financial institutions. In particular, these community development financial institutions need to avoid the debt financing that government is offering as an incentive to promote venture-capital financing in small businesses.

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  • Timothy Bates, 2002. "Government as Venture Capital Catalyst: Pitfalls and Promising Approaches," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 16(1), pages 49-59, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:16:y:2002:i:1:p:49-59
    DOI: 10.1177/089124240201600106
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    1. Timothy Bates, 2000. "Financing the Development of Urban Minority Communities: Lessons of History," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 14(3), pages 227-242, August.
    2. Ruhnka, John C. & Feldman, Howard D. & Dean, Thomas J., 1992. "The "living dead" phenomenon in venture capital investments," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 137-155, March.
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