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The optimization and selection of venture capital incentive policies under uncertain condition

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https://doi.org/10.52396/JUSTC-2022-0011
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    Wenjun Yan received her Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2012. She is currently an associate professor in Chang’an University. Her major research interests focus on investment decision of venture capital and risk management of public capital

    Haonan He received his Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019. He is currently a lecturer in Chang’an University. His research mainly focuses on innovation incentive policies

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: haonanhe@chd.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 04 January 2022
  • Accepted Date: 26 March 2022
  • Venture capital is crucial innovation capital. A venture capital option game model is constructed to obtain an incentive strategy that drives venture capital to actively allocate resources to support innovation based on risk subsidies and tax incentives. Moreover, the implementation effect of venture capital incentive policies under the value-uncertain condition of the entrepreneurial enterprise is studied. The results illustrate that when the uncertainty of the value of the entrepreneurial enterprise is less than the threshold, the tax preference policy is more effective in accelerating the investment decision-making of venture capital institutions. In contrast, the two policies have identical effects. When the uncertainty of the value of the entrepreneurial enterprise is less than the threshold, the risk subsidy policy has a better effect on increasing the investment scale of venture capital institutions, while the two policies have the same effect.
    The optimal decision is obtained for venture capitals to invest startups and for governments to provide investment incentives based on the option game model.
    Venture capital is crucial innovation capital. A venture capital option game model is constructed to obtain an incentive strategy that drives venture capital to actively allocate resources to support innovation based on risk subsidies and tax incentives. Moreover, the implementation effect of venture capital incentive policies under the value-uncertain condition of the entrepreneurial enterprise is studied. The results illustrate that when the uncertainty of the value of the entrepreneurial enterprise is less than the threshold, the tax preference policy is more effective in accelerating the investment decision-making of venture capital institutions. In contrast, the two policies have identical effects. When the uncertainty of the value of the entrepreneurial enterprise is less than the threshold, the risk subsidy policy has a better effect on increasing the investment scale of venture capital institutions, while the two policies have the same effect.
    • This work constructs an option game model of government and venture capital institutions based on both tax incentives and risk subsidies.
    • The impact of uncertainty on optimal risk investment decisions and policies is measured.
    • The differences in the roles of the two investment incentive policies in different uncertainty intervals are obtained, which provides theoretical support for investment decision-making and incentive policy formulation.

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    Figure  1.  Game flow chart between venture capital institutions and government options.

    Figure  2.  The optimal investment threshold and project uncertainty of venture capital institutions.

    Figure  3.  The optimal investment scale and project uncertainty of venture capital institutions.

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