Corporate venturing is becoming an important tool for big companies to complement internally driven innovation activities. However, becoming a serious player in corporate venturing requires governance principles and creates cultural dynamics that do not fit easily into existing corporate environments. This article discusses those challenges in detail and suggests ways to deal with them.
Since venture capital (VC) funds started to become a serious player in the financial world and began to have an impact on the world of corporate research and development (R&D), big corporations have started to play there as well. They set up corporate venture funds shelling out several hundred million dollars in many cases….
Read the full article on page 31 of our February magazine.