Abstract
As high technology industries become more competitive among the world,
venture capital, because of its specific function, has been quickly developed by most
of countries, which have issued some active policies to promote VC’s development.
Meanwhile, VC has become the catalyst and propulsion to high technology industries.
This supportive effect is reflected in the supporting process of transforming from high
technological achievement to production capability.
In 2008, based on the releasing of the Guiding Opinions on Regulating the
Establishment and Operation of Venture Capital Fund of Funds, domestic and foreign
investors have confidence in the venture capital industry and Shanghai venture capital
industry still kept a good development state. Shanghai venture capital industry
assisted and paid more attention to some industries, such as environmental protection
industry, modern service industry, traditional manufacturing and so on, which cry for
development in Shanghai modern economic foundation. On Oct. 29, 2009, the market
of second board (GEB-growth enterprise board) opened in Shenzhen stock market by
analyzing the twenty-eight corporations which firstly come into the market; we can
find that there are only two enterprises included in the twenty-eight corporations. The
city of Shanghai is our country’s economic and finance center, which possesses some
economic and technological advantages to develop venture capital. But why is low the
percentage of enterprising corporations of Shanghai in the first listed companies?
What problems are reflected according to the phenomenon? We should deeply discuss
and research these problems.
The most important function of venture capital is to promote science and
technology development and high and new technology industrialization, but the
capital demand is so much that it is impossible if enterprises only depend on
government finance and self-supported capital used in technological innovation. So
the main responsibility of government is to improve venture capital investment
circumstance in order to mobilize private capital to investment in enterprising
corporations. It is necessary to research the characteristics of venture capital
investment circumstance, find that what factors influence venture capital investment,
and use the method improving venture capital market in developed countries as a
source of reference. The main subject of this article is to analyze the performance of
Shanghai venture capital industry and external circumstances sustaining venture
capital industry development, find the advantages and disadvantages existing in the
Shanghai venture capital industry, and table a proposal about developing Shanghai
venture capital industry in order to strike up a large and active venture capital market.
Venture capital is a complicated systematic process. From the venture capital
history, the development of Shanghai venture capital is supported by government.
Generally, the government settled up state venture capital corporations. But this
method has two disadvantages: firstly, the manner of government direct investment
makes against fully mobilizing private capital and the venture capital market is not
active; secondly, as a organization form, corporation makes against prompting and
restricting for venture capitalists. This article bases on the development characteristics