“This is a time for great opportunities to develop novel diagnostic tools, therapeutic agents and medical devices for unmet patients’ needs, and that a diversified, multidisciplinary team is a must to develop these opportunities.”
Category: Analysis
Innovative regions: UK
London’s global appeal as a cultural centre with relative tolerance, combined with its research base across the Golden Triangle, gives it access to scientific and entrepreneurial talent to capitalise on the combination of complicated technology with soft-information skills from media and other services.
Banks double up on IPOs
Banks maintain historical rates to invest in private comapnies and then advise on their flotations.
Lessons from the Symposium
The lessons from the best practices are captured in the Global Corporate Venturing Best Practices and Awards supplement.
Best Practices Supplement: May 2011
Supplement covering the best practices shown by the industry over the past year as well as award winners from the inaugural Global Corporate Venturing event.
Companies outperform by venturing
Research by Gary Dushnitsky, associate professor at London Business School, revealed at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium on Wednesday found the outperformance covered both a company’s market value to book value ratio and their innovation capacity, as judged by patents.
Corporate venturing begins its golden age
This feature is part of a 12-month overview highlighting the best practices in the industry, which will form a supplement at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium and Banquet on May 18 – see related content.
Innovative regions: Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
“Everything is possible, but nothing is easy.”
Innovation – a business imperative or just a fad?
There is an opportunity to source-adapt-integrate-adopt a new breed of advanced technologies into new platforms and leapfrog entire legacy generations of capabilities.
Deal round-up: April 2011
To report a deal in Global Corporate Venturing, contact James Mawson at jmawson@globalcorporateventuring.com
VCs’ Perfect Partner
Venture capital firms select the corporate venturing unit they most respect and like to work with.
Profile: Procter & Gamble
P&G cleans up with a decade of Connect+Develop
Profile: Unilever Corporate Ventures
Preparing for a new thrust into emerging markets and moving to an evergreen funding structure.
Analysis of the consumer sector
Let there be growth…greater population brings more consumers but faster pace of changes requires companies to use corporate venturing to keep up.