Fin vs. tech: are trust and knowledge creation key ingredients in fintech start-up emergence and financing?

Theodor Florian Cojoianu; Gordon L Clark; Andreas G. F. Hoepner; Vladimir Pazitka; Dariusz Wojcik

doi:10.1007/s11187-020-00367-3

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Fin vs. tech: are trust and knowledge creation key ingredients in fintech start-up emergence and financing?

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Fin vs. tech: are trust and knowledge creation key ingredients in fintech start-up emergence and financing?

Theodor Florian Cojoianu, Gordon L Clark, Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Vladimir Pazitka and Dariusz Wojcik

Small Business Economics, Vol.57(4), pp.1715-1731

2021-12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00367-3

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Fintech

Knowledge spillovers

Trust

Innovation

G20

G24

L26

O30

O31

Entrepreneurship

Venture Capital

We investigate how the emergence of fintech start-ups and their financing is shaped by regional knowledge creation and lack of trust in financial services incumbents across 21 OECD countries, 226 regions and over the 2007-2014 period. We find that knowledge generated in the IT sector is much more salient for fostering new fintech start-ups than knowledge generated in the financial services sector. Additionally, the importance of new knowledge created in the financial services sector (IT sector) increases (decreases) as fintech start-ups grow and seek financing. When the level of trust in financial services incumbents falls within a region, this is followed by an increase in the financing provided to fintech start-ups. Nevertheless, regions with historically low average levels of trust in financial services incumbents attract less fintech investment overall.

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Title: Fin vs. tech: are trust and knowledge creation key ingredients in fintech start-up emergence and financing?
Creators: Theodor Florian Cojoianu - University College Dublin (IE)
Gordon L Clark - University of Oxford (GB)
Andreas G. F. Hoepner - Stockholm School of Economics, Mistra Center For Sustainable Markets
Vladimir Pazitka - University of Oxford (GB)
Dariusz Wojcik - University of Oxford (GB)
Publication Details: Small Business Economics, Vol.57(4), pp.1715-1731
Publisher: Springer Verlag (Germany)
Number of pages: 17
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Academic Unit: Mistra Center For Sustainable Markets; House of Sustainable Society
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Fin vs. tech: are trust and knowledge creation key ingredients in fintech start-up emergence and financing?

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