A portrait of innovative start-ups across countries

Breschi, Stefano; Lassébie, Julie; Menon, Carlo

doi:10.1787/f9ff02f4-en

“…In addition, Breschi et al (Forthcoming [59]) further refined and expanded the database by developing a classification of public VC investors encompassing all OECD and BRIICS countries. CIIE Delegates and national experts kindly contributed to this task by collaborating with the OECD in validating the list of public investors.…”

Section: Data On Innovative Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public research and innovative entrepreneurship

Breschi

¹

,

Lassébie

²

,

Lembcke

³

et al. 2019

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers

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This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document, as well as any data and any map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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“…On the contrary, if female founded start-ups are targeted by public investment programmes, and if female entrepreneurs who apply to and receive this type of funding choose not to register on the Crunchbase platform, the estimates of the gender gap presented in this paper may be distorted. However, Crunchbase contains several instances of public VC funding, and in the aggregate female-founded start-ups do not significantly appear to be the primary target of such schemes (Breschi et al, forthcoming [51]). This alleviates partly the concern raised above.…”

Section: Crunchbase and The Gender Gap In Start-up Fundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Levelling the playing field

Lassébie¹,

Sakha²,

Koźluk³

et al. 2019

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers

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This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document, as well as any data and any map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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“…Together with funding, the people willing to engage in a new business venture are another important "ingredient" of a thriving start-up ecosystem. Data available from Crunchbase 12 allow to investigate the characteristics of start-up founders across countries (see Breschi, Lassébie, and Menon, 2018, for a detailed analysis). This sub-Section briefly summarises the main similarities and differences of Italian start-up founders compared to a few other selected OECD countries.…”

Section: The Profile Of Italian Start-up Founders: a Cross-country Comentioning

confidence: 99%