Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?
BusinessWeek Explores Masako Ueda’s Research

Masako Ueda
Masako Ueda

Masako Ueda, an assistant professor in Finance, Investment and Banking at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the co-author of a research paper on venture capital that is drawing national attention.

Ueda and Masayuki Hirukawa, a professor in the economics department at Northern Illinois University, released an updated version of Venture Capital and Innovation: Which Is First?, a research paper that examines the correlation between venture capital investments and productivity growth.

BusinessWeek explored how their  research may show that, “money follows innovation, not the other way around.”

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