Innovative Regions

Indian CVC funding drops as corporate divide solidifies

Corporate-backed deal numbers are remaining resolute in India but cash levels are dropping sharply as the space remains ever more reliant on the consumer economy.

Corporates risk missing out in Canada’s tech boom

BCF Ventures’ Sergio Escobar and Bonnie Chau tell GCV what makes the Canadian innovation ecosystem unique and why it is getting brain gain from other parts of the world.

Britain’s innovation space is stronger than ever despite pandemic and aftermath of Brexit

Innovative region: UK

Japanese ecosystem re-emerges from the pandemic

Innovative region: Japan

Seven essential tips for corporates venturing into the startup nation

Comment by Adam Salkin, a partner in one of Israel’s leading law firms, Herzog, Fox & Neeman

Israel ecosystem continues to scale up

Innovative region: Israel

Managing “forced” technology transfer in emerging markets: The case of China

Major challenges that foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) face when doing business in emerging markets, such as China, can be conceptualized in terms of the risks that host countries’ institutions present to them.

An investigation into the investment practices of venture capital firms in China: a comparison with Europe and the US

This is a provisional study ahead of a full paper presented at the annual conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Cardiff, Wales, in 2021.

Why Do Incumbents Fund Startups? A Study of the Antecedents of Corporate Venture Capital in China

Entrepreneurial ventures are an important source of economic growth and technological advance. China is a vibrant entrepreneurial setting, second only to the US in total startup numbers and funding amounts.