Policy paper 203
Venture Capital: How to harmonize national and EU measures?
The venture capital industry is an important catalyst for a thriving start-up ecosystem, but Europe’s VC market is still small and fragmented. How could the issue of market fragmentation be addressed?
In this Policy Paper, Philipp Ständer, research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin, assesses the policy toolbox of member states and EU institutions to promote VC investments and proposes two initiatives that would address the issue of market fragmentation.