The latest crop of corporate venturing units has transformed parent companies at 77% of units, according to research into 48 of the largest companies in venturing. This is an interview with the study’s author, Swiss university ETH Zurich’s Boris Battistini, based on the article The State of Corporate Venturing, co-authored by Fredrik Hacklin and Pius Baschera, colleagues of Battistini at ETH Zurich, and published in Research-Technology Management.

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