AAA Annual Review

Corporate and university venture highlights

There’s now just a month to go until Global University Venturing Summit and I would love to see you there supporting the community by participating. As I’m sure you know, for many years NCET2 ran a best-practice event for university venturers. But with Tony Stanco from NCET2 now focussing most of his time working with… Continue reading Corporate and university venture highlights

Strong third quarter for corporate venturing

The following is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To verify reported deals, we contact about 300 corporate investors each quarter – these comprise roughly 18% of the global CVCs we cover, but account for most of the deals that are made public.

GCV-BMG 2018 CVC trends and insights project

Introduction In our inaugural 2017 CVC Trends & Insights summary report (http://www.bellmasongroup.com/insights/) we capped a look at the last five years’ explosive growth of global corporate venturing programs, highlighting the professionalisation of CVC specialty practices, the standardisation of foundational CVC team roles and with now documented external benchmarks framing compensation design, and noting the progressive… Continue reading GCV-BMG 2018 CVC trends and insights project

Global Government Venturing’s year in review

For all the geopolitical upset in world, countless governments around the world found a lot of time to double down on – or get involved in – the venturing space in 2017. The timing was right, therefore, for Global Government Venturing to launch its Leadership Society at the annual Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit in January,… Continue reading Global Government Venturing’s year in review

Global University Venturing’s year in review

2017 has been a year of change – of positive change, for the most part, but also some shocking developments that took the technology transfer world by surprise. Chief among the latter was the hostile takeover of Touchstone Innovations, the commercialisation firm spun out of Imperial College London, by its peer IP Group. The story… Continue reading Global University Venturing’s year in review