As with last year’s, the Global Corporate Venturing predictions for this year rely heavily on curating the crowd-sourced wisdom of the experts, our subscribers and readers, with a selection of the best answers in our survey on the following pages.

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Last year’s dozen picks were broadly accurate as the…