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title: Do Development Financial Institutions Create Impact through Venture Capital Investments?
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5101408/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5101408
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5101408
featured: 2025-01-23
citations: 0
topic: Other
---


# Do Development Financial Institutions Create Impact through Venture Capital Investments?

The paper studies the investment behaviors of Development Finance Institutions in venture capital, revealing their goals to develop VC ecosystems, encourage entrepreneurship, stimulate innovation, and advocate sustainability, with differing levels of success in developed and developing economies.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5101408
- Identifier: SSRN 5101408
- Released: 2025-01-17
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 83 (2025-01-23): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-01-23/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Other

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