AAA June 2014 – Page 10

Government house: Filling the funding gap: the EC’s new SME Instrument

At the start of 2014, the European Commission launched its SME Instrument, providing funding of €2.8bn over seven years to accelerate the development of innovative products and services with a two to three-year horizon to market. Stephan Decher explains what it is about and how to access the funds. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) employ two-thirds of… Continue reading Government house: Filling the funding gap: the EC’s new SME Instrument

University Corner: Technology transfer in a more global world

Tom Hockaday, managing director of Oxford University’s technology commercialisation company Isis Innovation, talks about the future of technology transfer as models of moving research and ideas from universities to the wider world evolve. “The world is getting more global,” said former US President George W Bush in one of his infamous Bushisms – along with… Continue reading University Corner: Technology transfer in a more global world

Measuring performance of innovation initiatives

The business models of large corporations are being disrupted faster than ever before. For example, Netflix is disrupting the video distribution industry, while new lucrative  markets are being created by innovative start-ups such as  Uber, Nest, and SpaceX. As a result of these developments, corporations are starting to realise they will need to reinvent their… Continue reading Measuring performance of innovation initiatives

Gaule’s Question Time: Sue Siegel, GE Ventures

Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corven Corporate Venturing Network, talks to Sue Siegel, CEO of GE Ventures and Healthymagination.Gaule: Give us a brief introduction to GE Ventures and your programme. Siegel: GE Ventures was launched in January 2013. General Electric is committed to working on big problems that matter. GE Ventures works on identifying, scaling… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: Sue Siegel, GE Ventures

How to spin out effectively

Andrew Mills, of law firm MJ Hudson, concludes his three-
part series looking at the key issues likely to arise when separating a corporate venture from its founding group.

News focus: Global Corporate Venturing Symposium

This is an edited transcript of the keynote speech at the 2014 Global Corporate Venturing Symposium in London given by James Mawson, Global Corporate Venturing’s editor-in-chief. What I was hoping to do today was to provide a perspective on the main theme for the conference – the idea of sustainability. This is our starting point. It… Continue reading News focus: Global Corporate Venturing Symposium