In the first of a series of monthly interviews with leading venture investors, Andrew Gaule, pictured, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to York Chen, managing partner of iD TechVentures
Category: Comment
Venturing needs tolerance rather than killing
This is the first in our monthly Ask Adam series where venturing expert Adam Caper, managing director of Synchrony Venture Management, answers the industry’s questions. To comment or ask further questions, anonymously if required, please email: jmawson@globalcorporateventuring.com
In order to master change, you must first dread it
Prof Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
Aim carefully before using high tech to shape strategy
July 2010 Editorial by James Mawson
Call to arms for innovation
Corporations in the US have been slashing internal long-term research and development spending for decades and, most recently, investments in venture capital-backed start-ups but this has to change for their nation’s health.
Call to arms for innovation
America’s innovation engine is running out of gas. Corporations in the US have been slashing internal long-term research and development spending for decades and, most recently, investments in venture capital-backed start-ups. Confronting an increasingly competitive global economy and the emergence of well financed centers of innovation outside of long dominant Silicon Valley, the case for… Continue reading Call to arms for innovation
A glimpse into the future
Economic upturn bodes well for companies looking externally for innovation through corporate venturing.
Growth can shine if debt is treated like equity
Reducing the tax deductibility of debt interest would reduce asymmetry and influence behaviour. This comment was first published in broadly the same form in the Financial Times in May.
Compensating corporate venture capitalists
Analysis of 13,000 venture capital rounds finds corporate venturing units outperform independent VCs but these returns can be even higher if the in-house teams are paid appropriately.
Truth can spring from argument among friends
The launch of Global Corporate Venturing, a media title specifically for the venture capital industry working in companies.