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
Month: June 2014
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
Essential know-how for operating in Russia
Venture capitalist Nick Davidov looks at what it takes to
operate effectively in the Russian market.
Internationalisation and IPO performance in the US
Our academic commentators Martin Haemmig and
Boris Battistini explore the relationship between the internationalisation of new ventures and their IPO performance
The clean deal: Four things I learned at the GCV Symposium
Our regular columnist Tom Whitehouse reflects on the
Global Corporate Venturing Symposium.
Kineta taps partners as it targets $10m
The company, which is developing a treatment or psoriasis and arthritis, raised part of the $10m round from clinical testing companies and has now raised $46m since it was founded.
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
Uber raises gigantic $1.2bn series D
The Google-backed ride sharing service raised the money at a $18.2bn valuation, and will seek to secure an extra $200m from strategics at the round’s second close.
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.
Corporate impact venturing
A new report explains how corporate venturing can help
source sustainable business innovations.
Winning the war for talent
The war for talent is not a new concept. The term made its first appearance in a 1997 study by McKinsey & Co, before going on to gain international prominence as the title of a 2001 book (written by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod). Both the study and the book were published against… Continue reading Winning the war for talent
Venturing’s TV moment
Corporate venturing is so hot right now that a major US network is making a TV show about it. It may not draw viewers at levels to rival that of Pop Idol, but it does highlight how much corporate venturing is in the spotlight, and how far it has come from the shadows.In April, the… Continue reading Venturing’s TV moment
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