The hot new companies of today pursuing corporate venturing bodes well for the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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Assessing a unit’s impact
Part II of the Bell Mason Group’s analysis for how to manage a corporate venturing group
Entrepreneurs provide lessons in what they need
It can take 20 years to change a culture to boost a nation’s entrepreneurialism..
A quiet revolution in clean energy finance
Large corporate players are beginning to show interest in early-stage clean energy companies, both through corporate investment arms and through full acquisitions. Their behaviour displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry.
Efficiency – the third industrial revolution
The next investment cycle will result in big returns for private and corporate investors alike in a broad range of areas related to efficiency and resources.
A different kind of venture
Tips on finding corporate venture partners
Boosting entrepreneurism as venture capital dwindles
How corporate venturing activities should be structured.
Gaule’s Question Time: Frank Herkstroter, P&G
Gaule: Give a brief description of the purpose of your innovation and the key areas for P&G. Herkströter: P&G decided about 10 years ago that, in order to meet its growth objectives, the only way would be to "connect and develop" beyond the type of collaboration that already took place with P&G’s suppliers. So, the… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: Frank Herkstroter, P&G
Industry raises its banner for 2011
Global Corporate Venturing warned there was a period of grace to use free cashflows to innovate and reorganise before the “owners of the debt will call to collect both the interest and the principal borrowed”. This day of reckoning has at times drawn extremely near in 2011.
US trade body sets the question
“What are corporate venturing groups doing here?”
EC venture passport welcomed
This week, as part of its drive to encourage and facilitate the growth of venture capital in Europe, the European Commission published a proposal for a legislative framework for venture capital funds – click here for the SJ Berwin PDF. If approved, this new regulation will allow managers of "European Venture Capital Funds" (as they… Continue reading EC venture passport welcomed
Green shoots for Spain’s scorched earth
Returning from an enjoyable TechTour in Bilbao, the difficulties Spain is facing in selling its debt, which now dominates the newsflow from the country, fortunately contrasts significantly with the dynamism of the country’s entrepreneurs.
Fundraising prediction for 2012
If the world’s economy does slow or turn into recession then fewer corporate venturing units/funds will be started, maybe 25 to 50 compared to about 100 this past year. If the economy continues okay then probably the same again.
Better late than never
It is hardly a sign of dynamism for a company to take more than five years from identifying a problem to doing more about it by setting up a corporate venturing fund. That France-based advertising agency Publicis Groupe has this week committed to co-invest with local phone operator France Telecom-Orange up to €150m ($200m) in… Continue reading Better late than never