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Joint Study Says U.S. is Losing its Entrepreneurial Edge
The current flow of venture capital activity indicates the practice previously dominated by the U.S. is becoming increasingly more common worldwide.
After analyzing the flow of venture capital over 100,000 deals from 2005 to 2017, the Center for American Entrepreneurship and NYU’s Shack Institute of Real Estate released a joint study indicating the U.S. may be losing its competitive advantage in the realm of venture capital activity.
A recent TechCrunch article on the study explained that while the U.S. still appears to produce the largest amount of venture activity in the world, America’s once dominant advantage in the practice is fast dwindling. In the mid-1990s, the U.S. was responsible for more than 95 percent of global venture capital investment. By 2012, that number had fallen to 70 percent and at the end of 2017, was at 50 percent.
Read the full analysis of the study here.
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