# kaal:claim:2808132-037

**Claim.** Venture capital deal flow, meaning the totality of potential deals and business plans screened by venture capitalists, would provide the optimal assessment of innovation trends, but that data is not available, so realized investment allocations must be used as a second-best proxy.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- current data availability from commercial venture capital databases

**Source quote.**

> innovation trends. While deal flow, that is, the totality of potential deals and business plans screened by venture capitalists, would provide an optimal assessment of innovation trends, deal flow data is not available. We therefore use venture capital investment

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data* (2016), V. Data as Input for Dynamic Regulation, page 25

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132

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**Failure mode.** Deal flow data unavailability  (family: data-quality-and-comparability)

**Topics.** innovation, research-methods

**Keywords.** deal-flow, venture-capital, data-limitations, innovation-signals, methodology

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