This paper assesses the financing gap faced by innovative start-ups in the European Union (EU) when they reach the scaling-up stage of their development. It draws on data collected through a seminar involving 117 experts representing start-ups and scale-ups, financial actors, academia, and EU policymakers and aimed at investigating the causes, consequences, and policy solutions of the scale-up gap in the EU. Besides highlighting supply-side deficiencies, the seminar also emphasised weaknesses in both the demand side of the scale-up gap and the EU ecosystem for high-growth entrepreneurship. The paper offers policy recommendations, highlighting the need for policy solutions involving private actors and specifically targeting scale-ups. The paper also calls for more robust research on measuring the scale-up financing gap and its economic impact to improve the policy response.
QUAS Anita;
MASON Colin;
COMPANO Ramon;
TESTA Giuseppina;
GAVIGAN James;
2022-11-09
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
JRC130514
0263-2373 (online),
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237322000950?via%3Dihub,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC130514,
10.1016/j.emj.2022.08.003 (online),
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