TY - CHAP AB - This chapter analyses how capital is raised and employed by a sample of 28 European biotechnology companies listed on Europe’s new stock markets from 1996 to 2000. We find that biotechnology companies rely heavily on IPO proceeds in order to finance their growth. We compare the behaviour of European firms to a sample of comparable U.S. firms. The analysis reveals that European companies tend to raise more capital at the IPO and to invest more aggressively in the short-run, whereas U.S. biotech firms tend to have more cash available before the IPO and invest more conservatively in the short-run. VL - 10 SN - 978-0-76231-137-8, 978-1-84950-293-1/1569-3732 DO - 10.1016/S1569-3732(04)10003-0 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1569-3732(04)10003-0 AU - Bertoni Fabio AU - Andrea Randone Pier ED - Giancarlo Giudici ED - Peter Roosenboom PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - FINANCING GROWTH AND INNOVATION THROUGH NEW STOCK MARKETS: THE CASE OF EUROPEAN BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS T2 - The Rise and Fall of Europe's New Stock Markets T3 - Advances in Financial Economics PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 61 EP - 79 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -