Counsel for aligning interests by taking stakes
Month: January 2011
Profile: WPP
Marketing its innovation credentials, WPP uses corporate venturing amid a broader acquisition and development strategy to transition to a digital future.
Navigating the new era of global competition
Business and legal imperatives for successful corporate innovation revealed
Valuing intellectual property
Intellectual property the bedrock of the modern economy but using that knowledge and valuing it correctly remains difficult.
Service providers join venturing ranks
Boutique service providers rather than large firms taste equity tidbits alongside a cash main course.
Innovative region: Qatar
An entrepreneurial metamorphosis is taking shape in the Middle East.
The measure of innovation
The 2010 State of Innovation Report is the second annual analysis of 12 technology areas and their global innovation by the IP Solutions business of media group Thomson Reuters.
Riding the ‘fifth wave’
Corporate venturing has undergone massive changes in the past 50 years, tracking with the growth and evolution of venture capital (VC) in a sequence of phases or waves punctuated by economic downturns.
Deal round-up: January 2011
A round-up of corporate venturing deals.
A partnership renaissance
Corporations have the opportunity to partner with VCs but will they grasp it?
Your brand of venturing
Corporate venturing is where venture capital firms were 15 years ago in terms of their marketing awareness.
Three Asian takeaways
The west is discounting Asian growth, low cost of entrepreneurialism and the arrival of a golden age of innovation.
The search for opportunities to fuel growth
As part of a series of interviews with leading venture investors and developers, Andrew Gaule, left, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Paul Morris (pictured), head of Europe for Dow Venture Capital.
NVCA’s vital call to arms
Every company needs to consider how it innovates and its openness to different ways of doing this.