"Introducing tax incentives for corporate investments in SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises], together with any capital gains and dividends from these investments, could help stimulate the necessary step-change in corporate investment behaviour."
Ceres Power, a UK-based spin-off from university Imperial College London that manufactures fuel cell technology for use in small-scale combined heat and power systems, has called on the local government to introduce tax breaks for corporate venturing as a way of finding new shareholders.
In a paper called Green Growth by the UK-based non-government organisation Institute for Public Policy Research, Ceres executives were reported as saying incentives for corporations to invest in start-ups such as itself were currently limited.…
