US venture capital trade body lies out its strategy to align its focus with corporate venturing groups.
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Gaule’s Question Time: Unilever
In this double interview, Gaule’s Question Time looks at two aspects of innovation and corporate venturing at Anglo-Dutch-listed consumer goods company Unilever.
Returns for the determined
Re-evaluation of healthcare sector throws up the growth in the industry and opportunities and threats that remain.
Intel breaches $10bn but who’s next
As products become more interconnected and complicated, and alternative uses of cash offer relatively lower returns then the pace of corporate venturing is only going to increase – with Intel Capital bearing the standard for what can be achieved as long as hubris does not lead to its downfall.
Lessons from the Symposium
The lessons from the best practices are captured in the Global Corporate Venturing Best Practices and Awards supplement.
What price value in febrile times?
This hot-house atmosphere for a few great businesses and others clinging on for high valuations at listing means its harder for patient, longer-term capital to be efficiently invested in businesses for the overall health of the economy. In such conditions, insiders and intermediaries reap the benefits.
This could be a year of venture
Data mixed about how widespread the venture capital resurgence will be.
Gaule’s Question Time: Bill Taranto, Merck
As part of a series of interviews with leading venture investors and developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venturing Network, talks to William Taranto (pictured), managing director of Global Health Innovation Fund, Merck.
An age of opportunity
If the industry is to capitalise on this golden age, corporate venturing units will be required to spend increasing amounts of time and effort showing their achievements and their potential – both in creating opportunities for the parent and as a risk management tool delivering awareness of competitive threats forming.
May offers measured path to success
Shortlist for the inaugural Global Corporate Venturing Awards & Best Practices 2011, revealed.
Six steps to social success
It doesn’t take six steps to join the dots behind Asian companies’ strategic moves.
Why venture capital is becoming corporate
successful venture capital firms are taking on the organisation structure of corporations to raise funds.
NVCA chairman promotes corporations
NVCA’s new chairman, Paul Maeder, says corporate venturing has a role to play, but the biggest bugbear for venture capital firms about its peers comes from relatively slow sign-offs of legal or financial documentation for portfolio companies.
Venturing styles tell a tale
Reasons European venture capital struggles compares to US peers laid bare: the latter caters to the entrepreneur.