风险投资机构对于企业的作用,到底是基于投前的筛选眼光,还是投后的增值能力,文章以我国中小企业板上市公司为样本,探讨该问题。研究发现:(1)投资之前,VC易选择研发投入高、成长性好、负债率高、经营效率差的企业;(2)投资之后,VC的增值服务能力使被投企业的经营效率显著提高,股东收益率得以大幅提升。(3)相对于无VC支持的企业,有VC支持的企业在盈利能力、经营效率、财务杠杆等方面显著较好,其中高的盈利能力主要来自于VC的投后增值作用,较好的经营效率和财务杠杆是由VC的事前筛选和事后增值两方面共同作用的结果。因此,我国的VC在投资前一般会选择经营效率差、债务率高的企业,投资后则通过增值服务使企业经营效率大幅提升,资本结构更为合理,并获得更好的权益净利率。这为认识我国风险投资对创业企业的价值增值机制做出了贡献。
As for the role of venture capital institutions in firms, is it due to ex-ante screening ability, or ex-post value-added ability or both? This paper uses a sample of SME board listed companies to test the effect of venture capital investment on firms. It comes to the following conclusions: firstly, before investment, VCs easily select firms with higher sales growth, financial leverage and poorer operational efficiency as well as firms that have more R&D input; secondly, after investment, value-added abilities of VCs significantly improve the operational efficiency of the portfolio companies, and enhance shareholders returns to a big margin; thirdly, among SME board firms, compared with firms without VC support, firms with VC support have significantly better earnings abilities, business efficiency and financial leverage; higher earnings abilities stem from the post-investment value-added role of VCs, and better business efficiency & financial leverage result from the co-role of ex-ante screening & post-investment value-added. Therefore, it concludes that VCs in China ordinarily select firms with poor business efficiency and higher debt ratios before investment and lead to the increase in business efficiency to a big margin, more rational capital structure & better rates of return on equity in invested firms through value added services after investment.